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December 1991 (USA)
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A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and the current 'United Europe'. A Hungarian...
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A first rate film about the birth of a Tannhauser performance
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Glenn Close | ... | Karin Anderson |
 | Niels Arestrup | ... | Zoltan Szanto |
| Kiri Te Kanawa | ... | Elisabeth (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| René Kollo | ... | Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| Håkan Hagegård | ... | Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| Waltraud Meier | ... | Venus (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| Renate Spingler | ... | A young shepherd (Tannhäuser highlights perfomed by) (voice) |
| Matthias Hölle | ... | The Landgrave (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| Kim Begley | ... | Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| Robin Leggate | ... | Heinrich der Schreiber (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| Rodney Macann | ... | Biterolf (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| Roderick Earle | ... | Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice) |
| Marián Labuda | ... | Von Schneider |
| Maïté Nahyr | ... | Maria Krawiecki |
| Victor Poletti | ... | Stefano Del Sarto |
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The director's name, István Szabó, translates as Stephen Tailor, and one running gag in the film is that several people are called this in different languages: Stefan Schneider, Steve Taylor, Stefano Sarto (three of the singers), and Etienne Tailleur (the stage manager).
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Du bis wie eine Blume
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This film is much more than a customary movie about opera, though opera lovers get first-rate extracts from Wagner's Tannhauser as well. The action takes place in an imaginary "Opera Europe" in Paris. István Szabó, the excellent film director is really interested here in fanatic people of the theater who came from several countries of Europe to unite their talent in order to create a successful performance of Wagner's youthful masterpiece. The ensemble is a mixture of multinational people: the head of the company (a Spaniard, a former hero of the Spanish Civil War,) her private secretary and mistress (descendant of a noble Russian family,) the conductor (a talented young Hungarian who suffers from inferiority complex because of his East-block origin,) the singer who plays Tannhauser (a permanently offended dumpy man from the DDR with beautiful voice,) the French theatrical technician (a pig headed trade unionist who causes much trouble,) etc. They carry with themselves all good and vicious habits and traditions of their origin which cause many conflicts but humorous episodes as well during the rehearsals. There is a remarkable scene when at a dinner party the protagonists put aside all of their conflicts and sing together a song called "Suliko" which was once Stalin's favorite. (They sing it not because they love Stalin, but because of a certain nostalgia for their youth.) In the center of the story stands the Hungarian conductor's and a Nordic singer's (played by Glenn Close) stormy love affair which ends in diminuendo (using here deliberately this term of music.) Strongly recommended for everyone who loves art and theater.