72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Bluebeard's Castle/Herzog Blaubarts Burg

Michael Powell
     60 m.
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Bartók's only opera, not staged until 1922, was based on a symbolist libretto written in 1911 by the future film theorist Balazs. The Duke reluctantly opens the seven doors in his castle to show his eighth wife their bloody secrets, before she joins the ghostly wives as darkness becomes total.
Director
Michael Powell
Photography
Hannes Staudinger
Edition
Paula Dvorak
Music
Béla Bartók
Cast
Norman Foster (Bluebeard), Anna Raquel Sartre (Judit)
Running Time
60 m.
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