Eika Katappa (1969) + Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972)
2xDVD9 | ISO | PAL 4:3 | 02:22:52 + 01:44:11 | 6,99 Gb + 5,51 Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Italian
Genre: Art-house
2xDVD9 | ISO | PAL 4:3 | 02:22:52 + 01:44:11 | 6,99 Gb + 5,51 Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Italian
Genre: Art-house
Director: Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter's unique melodramas about love and death are fascinating amalgamations of opera, theater and cinema elements. Art and kitsch, high and low brow, Maria Callas and Caterina Valente, myths and genre elements. The 2-disc DVD set presents the first two feature-length films by Schroeter in beautifully restored versions. Additionally it offers a new reconstruction of Schroeter's legendary two-screen projection Argila and excerpts of a talk with Werner Schroeter, lead by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt during the Werner Schroeter Tribute at the Viennale 2008.
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Eika Katappa (1969)
Score with few lines in Italian/English/Spanish/German | 6,99 Gb
Score with few lines in Italian/English/Spanish/German | 6,99 Gb
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music - with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.
Special Features:
- Maria Callas Porträt (1968, 12:49)
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Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972)
Score/German with optional English, French and Italian subs | 5,51 Gb
Score/German with optional English, French and Italian subs | 5,51 Gb
This bizarre film by one of the most original directors now working in Germany is hermetic, expressionist, oblique, and of a creative perversity that bespeaks the presence of a genius. Purporting to deal with a real-life 19th century diva 'whose popularity was such that over-exertion led to her death while singing,' the film is actually a grisly series of frozen or tortured tableaux (predominantly lesbian in implication) of heavily rouged, frequently ugly women who, pretending to sing heavy opera, go through contorted, icy attempts at communication that lead nowhere. The lip-sync is off; the singing is off-pitch; mouths are frequently open while no sound issues forth, or closed, with mellifluous arias or cheap popular songs heard on scratchy renditions of old records. Neither burlesque nor slapstick, the film's intent, at least in the beginning, is nevertheless ironical and subversive, though mysteriously so. However, it grows increasingly dark and more threatening, with screams, faces bathed in Vaseline, red, wet mouths, smeared eye shadows, and dehumanized figures. One cannot 'explain' Schroeter's work, other than recognize his debunking of opera as a metaphorical rejection of bourgeois society; but one trembles in recognition of a prospective major talent.Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art
Special Features:
- Argila (1969, 32:48, in German with English/French/Italian subs)
- Dietrich Kuhlbrodt im Gespräch mit Werner Schroeter (2010, 23:44, in German with English/French/Italian subs)
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