Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart, Bellini, and Donizetti. Elfi Mikesch, the cinematographer of Schroeter’s later films, designed the film’s sumptuous costumes. A contemporary critic for Le Monde wrote admiringly of Schroeter’s depiction of "the deadly struggle between dark Christian morality and luminous paganism.“
Genre: Drama
Stars: Mascha Rabben, Magdalena Montezuma, Ellen Umlauf, Thomas von Keyserling, René Schoenenberger, Joachim Paede
Crew: Werner Schroeter (Screenplay), Werner Schroeter (Director), Ila von Hasperg (Editor), Christoph Holch (Producer), Robert van Ackeren (Director of Photography), Oscar Wilde (Writer)
Country: Germany
Language: العربية, Deutsch
Studio: IFAGE Filmproduktion, ZDF
Runtime: 81 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jun 11, 1971
IMDb: 10
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