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Overview
Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart, Bellini, and Donizetti. Elfi Mikesch, the cinematographer of Schroeter’s later films, designed the film’s sumptuous costumes. A contemporary critic for Le Monde wrote admiringly of Schroeter’s depiction of "the deadly struggle between dark Christian morality and luminous paganism.“
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 11, 1971
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- ZDF,Ifage Filmproduktion,IFAGE Filmproduktion
- Cast
- Mascha Rabben,Magdalena Montezuma,Ellen Umlauf,René Schoenenberger,Joachim Paede,Thomas von Keyserling
- Director
- Werner Schroeter
- Writer
- Werner Schroeter,Oscar Wilde
- Producer
- Christoph Holch
- Cinematography
- Robert van Ackeren
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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