The cunning little fox (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The clever little fox |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Walter Felsenstein (theater) Georg Mielke (film) |
| production | German television broadcasting |
| music | Leoš Janáček |
| occupation | |
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The cunning little fox is a studio recording of the German TV broadcaster of Walter Felsenstein's staging of the opera of the same name in three acts by Leoš Janáček , translated by Walter Felsenstein and Horst Seeger , at the Komische Oper Berlin .
action
Since this is the stage production, see: The clever little fox
production
The opera was recorded during the renovation work at the Komische Oper Berlin, in the studios of the German TV broadcaster in Berlin Adlershof. The plot is based on the text by Max Brod based on a novella by Rudolf Těsnohlídek . It was first broadcast on television on April 18, 1965.
The orchestra and choir of the Komische Oper Berlin were under the direction of Václav Neumann . The set was created by Rudolf Heinrich and Herbert Michel and the costumes were designed by Rudolf Heinrich and Gundolf Foizik.
In 2008 the film was digitized.
criticism
K. St. said in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland : “The broadcast of the Janácek Opera with the ensemble of the Komische Oper on Easter Sunday was a lasting artistic experience. The television adaptation was very much in keeping with Felsenstein's principle of ensuring comprehensibility and clear message. Cross-fades, which are not possible on stage, make dreams and wishes, which Janacek depicts musically, also visible to the eye. The effect was doubled because this, the film's own means, was used very sparingly. The camera made excellent use of the possibility of capturing the life of the animals in accordance with the speech melody and the rhythm of the music. This enabled the director to bring the peculiarity of the music, which results from Janácek's vocal style, closer to the untrained listener. Felsenstein demonstrated that there need be no fruitless rivalry between the stage and television. On the contrary. The increased possibilities of the camera are used here to make new friends for the opera. "Mimosa Künzel wrote in the Neue Zeit :" Anyone who has seen the Felsenstein production of this Janácek opera in Berlin may have feared that the lack of it A lot of color and the small picture space is lost. But the famous performance of the Komische Oper had been arranged for television by Walter Felsenstein himself, and so this evening was as much an experience for the television viewer as it was for the visitors of the 220 performances in the Berlin house of the world-famous ensemble, which with this opera in Paris, Moscow and Prague caused storms of applause. "
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The clever little fox on the screen. In: New Germany . April 20, 1965, p. 3.
- ↑ On the magic carpet to the Orient. In: New Time . April 22, 1965, p. 4.