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kobvindex_ZLB13777311
Format:
1 DVD Video (ca. 139 Min.) ; (Extras ca. 73 Min.)
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Pal
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Series Statement:
The American film theatre collection : [DVD-Video]
Content:
Fiddler on the Roof's Topol and a wish-list cast of British theatrical aristocracy, including Sir John Gielgud (Arthur, Becket), Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange), Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal), and Tom Conti (Reuben, Reuben), ground Bertolt Brecht's famous theatrical imagination in a precise, character-rich interpretation of the troubled life and anxious times of 17th century physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Under director Joseph Losey (who originated the American stage version of Galileo in 1947), The American Film Theatre's Galileo focuses on Brecht's characteristic mosaic of theatricality and immediacy into a personalized and keenly cinematic drama that pits public responsibility against private doubt... In Galileo, director Losey (Eva, The Go-Between, The Servant), an exile of the Hollywood blacklist himself, creates a uniquely affecting portrait of discovery, heresy, compromise, and exile. Neither coward nor hero, Brecht's Galileo reveals the troubling human side of the struggle between science, government, and religion. (Covertext)
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Ländercode: 0
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Special features: an interview with Topol (21 min.). Theatrical trailer.In the booklet: "Bertolt Brecht and Galileo" an essay by Michael Feingold, Chief Theatre Critic, The Village Voice. The AFT cinebill for Galileo.
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Engl.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Inszenierung
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American Film Theatre
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Schauspielkunst
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Losey, Joseph
Author information:
Brecht, Bertolt
