Ludwig van Beethoven Filmography

Jerome Rose Plays Beethoven: Live in Concert - Sonatas Op. 101, 109, 110, 111

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Actors: Jerome Rose

Synopsis: This classical performance film finds acclaimed concert pianist Jerome Rose interpreting several sonatas by Ludwig von Beethoven, including Ops. 101, 109, 110 and 111. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

Proust, Or How the Heart Skips a Beat

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Actors: Eleonora Abbagnato, Hervé Moreau, Stéphane Bullion, Manuel Legris, Mathieu Ganio

Synopsis: The Opera National de Paris mounted this production of choreographer Roland Petit's ballet Proust: Or How the Heart Skips a Beat, adapted from Marcel Proust's A La Recherche du temps perdu. The production stars Eleonora Abbagnato, Hervé Moreau, Stéphane Bullion and Manuel Legris and features music Read More

Concert in Honour of Pope Benedict XVI: Beethoven - Symphony No. 9

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Actors: Pope Benedict XVI, Mariss Jansons

Synopsis: As mounted and performed at the Paul VI Audience Hall in The Vatican, in late October 2007, this classical concert by the symphony and chorus of the Bayerischen Rundfunk pays homage to Pope Benedict XVI interpretations of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Read More

Hans Van Manen Festival

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Synopsis: As mounted by The Dutch National Ballet to commemorate ballet choreographer Hans van Manen's 75th birthday, the aptly-named Hans Van Manen Festival brought together representative dancers from companies around the world, who pay homage to Manen by performing many of his best known and most Read More

Ingrid Fliter: Live in Recital - Miami International Piano Festival

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Actors: Ingrid Fliter

I Just Wanted to Be Somebody

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Anita Bryant

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt explores the connection between the religious right and the gay liberation movement in this short film comprised of television news clips, commercials, and the home movies of Anita Bryant. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Five Days in September

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Peter Oundjian, Emanuel Ax, Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma

Synopsis: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra gets a new lease on life when new music director Peter Oundjian steps on board, and music lovers get to see a firsthand account of the creative firestorm that follows in this documentary from filmmaker Barbara Willis Sweete. A former classical violinist who studied Read More

When Will I Be Loved

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Actors: Neve Campbell, Dominic Chianese, Frederick Weller, Karen Allen, Barry Primus

Synopsis: Directed by James Toback, the erotic drama When Will I Be Loved? revolves around Vera, the debutante girlfriend (Neve Campbell) of a fast-talking hustler (Frederick Weller) who is on the verge of making millions through a big-money gambling venture. Feeling undervalued, Vera explores her sexuality Read More

Moonlight Sonata

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Synopsis: Relax with this soothing treat for both the eyes and ears from Vox Music Groups' DVD Impressions series. Moonlight Sonata pairs visual imagery of seaside sunsets and moonlight with some of the best-loved classical music in history. Among the musical selections are Adagio Sostenuto From "Moonlight" Read More

H6: Diary of a Serial Killer

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Actors: Fernando Acaso, Maria Jose Bausa, Martin Garrido, Raquel Arenas, Sonia Moreno

Synopsis: A friendly face masks the mind of a twisted serial killer in Spanish painter-turned-filmmaker Martin Garrido Barón's disturbing tale of a man who has finally succumbed to his most violent and murderous impulses. Antonio Frau (Fernando Acaso) has just been released from prison after serving 25 Read More

Taking Sides

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Actors: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr, Oleg Tabakov

Synopsis: Set in Germany in 1946, Taking Sides tells the story of the investigation of Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård), the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, by the American occupying army. Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) has been told by his Read More

Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres

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Actors: Richard Berry, Mathieu Amalric, Maurice Garrel, Elodie Peudepiece, Malik Zidi

Synopsis: French filmmaker and professor of music Denis Dercourt directs the family drama Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres (My Children Are Different). Widowed cellist Jean Debart (Richard Berry) is strict with his two children in regards to their musical education. Teenager Adele (Elodie Read More

Seiji Ozawa: Beethoven Coral Symphony

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Actors: Seiji Ozawa, Anne Schwanewilms, Barbara Dever

Claudio Abbado/Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven - Symphonies 3 & 9

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Synopsis: Conductor Claudio Abbado leads the Berliner Philharmoniker in recreating two of Ludwig Van Beethoven's most beloved works in this pair of performances captured live at Berlin's Philharmonie and the Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Compositions offered here include "Symphony No. 9 in D Read More

Fireplace: Visions of Tranquility

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Synopsis: From DVD International, the people behind Digital Video Essentials, comes Fireplace, a special DVD designed for viewers who want the experience of looking at a fireplace without the high costs and backbreaking maintenance. The images of a burning wood fireplace can be accompanied by three Read More

Claudio Abbado/Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7

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Synopsis: This concert performance by the Berliner Philharmonkier features Beethoven's Symphony No. Four and Symphony No. Seven. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Claudio Abbado/Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 6 & 8

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Synopsis: This performance by the Berliner Philharmoniker under the conduction of Claudio Abbado consists of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, ymphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, and Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Claudio Abbado/Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven - Symphonies 2 & 5

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Synopsis: Recorded at Rome's Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, this release from EuroArts features the world-renowned Berliner Philharmoniker performing under conductor Claudio Abbado. The February 2001 concert includes renditions of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 Read More

Rejected

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Fantasia 2000

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Actors: Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Teller, Penn Jillette, James Levine, Angela Lansbury, Leopold Stokowski

Synopsis: Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia 2000 was meant to revitalize Walt Disney's goal of a constantly evolving film, with new segments replacing old ones with each re-release. Only The Sorcerer's Apprentice Read More

Beethoven: Triple Concerto and Choral Fantasy

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Actors: Daniel Barenboim, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman

Synopsis: Three of the most celebrated artists in classical music -- violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and pianist Daniel Barenboim -- come together for a special recital in this performance video. Recorded during a 1995 performance with The Berlin Philharmonic, Beethoven: Triple Concerto and Read More

Esti Kornel Csodalatos Utazasa

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Synopsis: This Hungarian fantasy moves easily from one time to the next as it almost simultaneously presents two train rides in the lifetime of a famous writer; the film is adapted from two short stories by Hungarian writer Dezso Kosztolanyi. The film opens with a scene following young aspiring writer Read More

All Things Fair

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Actors: Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Karin Huldt, Björn Kjellman

Synopsis: A young man growing up at a difficult time enters into a relationship that only makes his life more complicated in this acclaimed coming-of-age drama. Stig (Johan Widerberg) is a 15-year-old boy growing up in Malmo, Sweden, in 1942. While WWII rages in Europe, Sweden remains politically neutral Read More

Anjel Milosrdenstva

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Actors: Ingrid Timkova, Juraj Simko, Jozef Vajnar, Peter Simun, Jaraj Mokry

Synopsis: This Central European costume melodrama tells the tale of an affair between a POW and an officer's wife. Anezka is the wife who comes to visit her husband, a major, in Stryj, a town in the midst of a war. The major is dying after he sustained third-degree burns during a recent attack perpetrated Read More

Passions

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Actors: Svetlana Kolenda, Renata Litvinova, Alexei Schevtshenko, Mikhail Demidov, Vassili Rybakin

Synopsis: People with a passion for horses are observed in this Russian film by filmmaker Kira Muratova. The film has no real plot. Instead it zeros in on several scenes in which people talk about or hang out around horses. In the first segment, set on the lawn of a seaside hospital, an healing, wheelchair Read More

Immortal Beloved

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Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Barry Humphries, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: This biography of Ludwig von Beethoven (played here by Gary Oldman) builds its narrative around an actual letter found after his death, addressed only to the composer's "immortal beloved." The responsibility of discovering this mysterious person's identity falls to Beethoven's friend and secretary Read More

Josef Suk and Rudolf Firkusný: Works for Violin and Piano

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Actors: Josef Suk, Rudolf Firkusný

Synopsis: Josef Suk and Rudolf Firkusny: Works for Violin and Piano presents the duo performing selections from such beloved composers as Brahms, Dvorak, and Beethoven. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

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Actors: Neil Munro, Fiona Reid, Albert Schultz

Synopsis: Prague and Ontario stand in for 19th century Vienna in Beethoven Lives Upstairs. Young Chris (Illya Woloshin) lives with his none-too-prosperous mother (Fiona Reid) and uncle (Albert Schultz), who are forced to take in a boarder. Enter a fellow named Ludwig (Neil Munro), with a hearing problem, a Read More

Merci La Vie

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Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

Solti: Orchestra!

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Actors: Dudley Moore, Sir Georg Solti

Fidelio (Royal Opera)

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Synopsis: Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the most important symphonic composers of the classical era, but Fidelio, the story of one man's struggle for freedom, independence, and love, was his only attempt at an opera. This video documents a production of Fidelio staged at Great Britain's Royal Opera House Read More

Far Out Man

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Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Shelby Chong, Paris Chong, C. Thomas Howell, Martin Mull, Judd Nelson

Synopsis: Starring many of his family members, this is Tommy Chong's (of the well-known duo, Cheech and Chong) first solo production. As an outdated hippie, Far Out Man (Tommy Chong) searches to relive his lost youth by traveling across the country. C. Thomas Howell, Judd Nelson, and Cheech Marin all make Read More

Herbert Von Karajan: Beethoven - Missa Solemnis in D Major, Op. 123

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Ruza Baldani, Eric Tappy, Jose van Dam

Synopsis: This classical performance release finds famed conductor Herbert von Karajan leading a 1990 performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1824 Missa Solemnis (or "solemn mass"). Soloists include Ruza Baldani, Jose Van Dam and Eric Tappy; the Berliner Philharmoniker provides symphonic accompaniment. Read More

La Lectrice

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Actors: Miou-Miou, Christian Ruche, Maria Casarés, Patrick Chesnais, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: At the suggestion of a friend, Constance (Miou-Miou) places an ad in the paper offering her services as a reader in this romantic comedy drama. Her job leads her to a variety of employers and occasional romantic involvement. Maria Casares plays the widow of an East European general who has Read More

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Beethoven - Symphony No. 9

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Actors: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir

Beethoven's Nephew

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Actors: Wolfgang Reichmann, Dietmar Prinz, Jane Birkin, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: Andy Warhol "graduate" Paul Morrissey surprised his followers with his sensitive direction of the 1985 costume drama Beethoven's Nephew (Le Neveu de Beethoven) The eponymous character, Karl Beethoven (Dietmar Prinz), is snatched from his mother's home by egomaniacal composer Ludwig Van Beethoven (Wolfgang Reichmann Read More

Travelling North

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Actors: Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Graham Kennedy, Henri Szeps, Michelle Fawdon

Synopsis: Director Carl Schultz and screenwriter David Williamson's character study of an aging Australian man's second marriage boasts a robust performance by Leo McKern. McKern plays Frank, a man in his seventies, who used to be something of a firecracker, but who now, his best days behind him, prefers to Read More

Ironweed

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Actors: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Diane Venora

Synopsis: Based on the William Kennedy novel of the same name Ironweed is set in the waning years of the Depression. Jack Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, a washed-up ballplayer (a onetime infielder for the Washington Senators) who deserted his family back in the 1910s when he accidentally killed his infant Read More

Gaby: A True Story

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Actors: Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Levin, Robert Loggia, Lawrence Monoson

Synopsis: Gaby: A True Story is about a young woman -- the child of rich European refugees living in Mexico -- who was stricken with cerebral palsy at birth. Though her body is completely paralyzed, her mind is unaffected, and she is able to become a college graduate and an acclaimed author. Rachel Levin Read More

Dernier Cri

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Actors: Hubert Lucot, Christine Laurent, Catherine Bonin, Eric Mitchell, Julien Dubois

Synopsis: This thriller looks at the defection of a terrorist and focuses on frequent violence and repetitive sex scenes with full frontal nudity. Henri (Hubert Lucot) belongs to a terrorist gang that orders him to kill the sister of one of their members. The member himself died when he single-handedly Read More

La Sonate à Kreutzer

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Actors: Maurizio Donadoni, Daniela Morelli

Synopsis: Based on a story of a husband's obsession by Leo Tolstoy, director Gabriela Rosaleva has transformed Tolstoy's misogynist tract into an inflammatory though indirect condemnation of the husband's behavior. The husband's problem is that he is convinced his wife is having an affair with the violinist Read More

Podivna Pratelstvi Herce Jesinia

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Le Meilleur De La Vie

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Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Bonnaffé, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Marc Bory

Synopsis: Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this well-executed drama about Veronique (Sandrine Bonnaire) and Adrien (Jacques Bonnafe). Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of Read More

Harem

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Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Goldson, Zohra Segal, Michel Robin

Synopsis: This film's two well-known stars -- Nastassja Kinski as Diane, a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange, and Ben Kingsley as Selim an Arab mogul -- are hard-put to bring life into this beautifully photographed but underscripted romantic drama. Diane is kidnapped and brought to Read More

Experiment Eva

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Il Quartetto Basileus

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Actors: Héctor Alterio, Omero Antonutti, Michel Vitold, Pierre Malet, François Simon

Synopsis: The internationally renowned string quartet had been performing together for most of their adult lives when their lead violinist suddenly died, leaving the remaining three confused about their lives and careers. Up till then, all they had known were the rigors of constant practice and traveling. Read More

Notre Histoire

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Actors: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru, Gérard Darmon, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: In this confusing, surreal, and slow-paced drama that swings back and forth from strange to farcical, Robert (Alain Delon) meets Donatienne (Nathalie Baye) on a train. She tells him a story about a woman and a man who meet on a train and subsequently spend a night - only one night - in a Read More

Nostalghia

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Actors: Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: Nostalghia is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's enigmatic work about a writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who, trapped by his fame and an unhappy marriage, seeks out his cultural past in Italy. Here he meets Erland Josephson, a local pariah who declares that the world is coming to an end. The writer finds Read More

First Name: Carmen

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Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. Director Jean-Luc Godard attempts to make a film that resembles a string quartet, each of whose parts serves an abstract whole. Read More

Fidelio

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Actors: Anton de Ridder, Robert Allman, Curt Appelgren, Elisabeth Söderström, Elizabeth Gale

Synopsis: Elisabeth Söderström and Curt Applegren headline this performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's classic Fidelio in an elaborate performance staged at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival in 1979 and featuring the Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra performing under the wand of conductor Bernard Haitink Read More

Dyrygent

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Actors: John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn

Synopsis: Polish director Andrzej Wajda had a habit of switching gears between socially conscious films and pure box-office entertainments. The Conductor, released in Poland in 1979 as Dyrygent, falls into the latter category. John Gielgud stars as an old and venerated orchestra conductor, making his annual Read More

Den Allvarsamme Leken

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Actors: Stefan Ekman, Allan Edwall

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, Arvid (Stefan Ekman) works at a newspaper in turn-of-the-century Sweden. In no rush to marry, his puts off his beloved Lydia's pleas for an engagement. She marries someone else, and he decides to marry for money. Some years later, Arvid sees Lydia at a performance of the Read More

Krystyna Et Sa Nuit

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Actors: Marysia, Roger Van Hool, Yves Collignon

Synopsis: Pierre (Roger Van Hool) is a musician, and, for some reason he cannot explain, he finds Krystyna (Marysia) fascinating. Krystyna blinded herself during an unsuccessful suicide attempt. While the two of them enjoy a romantic liaison, they essentially have little in common and soon drift apart. Read More

Beethoven - Tage Aus Einem Leben

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Actors: Donatas Banionis, Stefan Lisewski, Fred Delmare

Synopsis: This East German film swoops into discrete days in the composer Ludwig von Beethoven's life in Vienna, beginning in 1813, when he first became aware of being deaf. The film follows him through the time of his death in 1827. By that time, he had been completely deaf for over eight years. In this Read More

Che?

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Actors: Hugh Griffith, Sydne Rome

Synopsis: One of Roman Polanski's lesser-known films, Diary of Forbidden Dreams (also known as What?) stars Sydne Rome as an attractive young hitchhiker who, as the film opens, accepts a ride from three men in a car, who later attempt to rape her. She escapes their clutches and makes her way to a mansion Read More

Wildwechsel

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Synopsis: Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the lad to kill her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown Read More

Death in Venice

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Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, Bogarde falls in love with a beautiful young boy (Bjorn Andresen). The relationship is ruined by Bogarde's obsession with the Read More

Fidelio (Deutsche Oper Berlin)

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Actors: Martti Talvela, Gustav Neidlinger, James King, Gwyneth Jones, Josef Greindl

A Clockwork Orange

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Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Adrienne Corri, Warren Clarke, Aubrey Morris

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick dissects the nature of violence in this darkly ironic, near-future satire, adapted from Anthony Burgess' novel, complete with "Nadsat" slang. Classical music-loving proto-punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before Read More

Pornografi-En Musical

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Loegneren

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Synopsis: Annemari is having an affair with a visiting bureaucrat while her fiancé, a fisherman, is away. However Annemari would rather spend time with the middle-aged island schoolteacher instead of either her fiancé or the bureaucrat. The schoolteacher, a daydreaming alcoholic, also wants Annemari, but Read More

Fidelio

Crew: From Opera by

Actors: Anja Silja, Richard Cassilly, Theo Adam, Lucia Popp

Synopsis: Fidelio is an opera by Ludwig Von Beethoven which, like the dialogue in many of Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, is better-known from excerpts, such as the Leonora Overture. The reason is simply that as an opera, Fidelio is not outstandingly entertaining, though there is nothing wrong with the Read More

Leopold Stokowski Conducts: Beethoven/Tchaikovsky

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Actors: Leopo