The voice of the moon

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Movie
German title The voice of the moon
Original title La voce della luna
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1990
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Federico Fellini
script Federico Fellini
Tullio Pinelli
Ermanno Cavazzoni
production Mario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
music Nicola Piovani
camera Tonino Delli Colli
cut Nino Baragli
occupation

The Voice of the Moon ( Italian : La voce della luna ) from 1990 is Federico Fellini's last film . The film essay based on motifs from the novel Il poema dei Lunatici ( dt . The song of the moon heads ) of Ermanno Cavazzoni . The main actors are the Italian comedians Roberto Benigni (Salvini) and Paolo Villaggio (Prefect Gonella).

content

The settings are an unspecified small Italian town and its rural surroundings. The main characters are Ivo Salvini , who wanders through the night and listens to voices that seem to call him from fountains, and the old " Prefect " Gonella , who is on the trail of an extensive conspiracy. Other "weirdos" who appear are a former musician suffering from visions, whose instrument has made himself independent and who now lives in a cemetery, and the two Micheluzzi brothers who, actually ordinary craftsmen, bring the moon down from the sky towards the end.

criticism

Cavazzoni says of Fellini's film: "Only Fellini could think of creating a film from a story that consists more of words than of action."

The lexicon of the international film about the cinema tip from the Catholic film critics: "Impressive in terms of image design, narrative style and use of music, the film impresses with its deeply humane image of man and its respect for nature."

Others

The Italian premiere took place on January 31, 1990. In Germany , the film came on 31 May 1990 in the cinemas and in Austria in June 1990. The film is in German version on VHS , on DVD and on Blu-ray Disc appeared (as of September 2015). It is rarely shown on television.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Recording of a broadcast at Eins Festival
  2. filmzentrale.com . Retrieved July 31, 2010
  3. The Voice of the Moon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. IMDb.com - launch dates for The Voice of the Moon
  5. TV wish list: The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna) I / F, 1990 . (Broadcast dates, accessed April 6, 2018)