The Merry Wives of Windsor (1965)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The merry women of Windsor |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language |
German English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Tressler |
| script | Georg Tressler based on the opera of the same name by Otto Nicolai |
| production | Norman Foster , Vienna |
| music | Otto Nicolai under the musical direction of Milan Horvath from the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra |
| camera |
Hannes Staudinger Sepp Riff |
| cut | Paula Dvorak |
| occupation | |
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The funny women of Windsor is an Austrian opera adaptation based on the eponymous model by Otto Nicolai (music) and William Shakespeare (content). Directed by Georg Tressler .
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Sir John Falstaff is quite a Filou. The notoriously clammy ladyboy and drunkard sent an identical love letter to two women. One of them, Mistress Ford, decides, together with Mrs. Reich, to teach him an apprenticeship. Mistress Ford then invites Falstaff to a rendezvous in her house, while the other sends a letter to Mr. Ford to inform him about Falstaff's tête-à-tête with his wife.
It happens as it has to: Ford and Herr Reich appear at the most unfavorable moment for Falstaff and their actions cause hopeless confusion. Falstaff's dissolute intentions are thwarted and bring the notorious do-no-good into extreme distress. In the end, the humiliated Falstaff is cured of his tendency to constant, amorous escapades, and by the way, Mrs. Reich's daughter Ann has found her great love in the pretty, albeit poor, Fenton.
Production notes
The funny women of Windsor was filmed in Vienna from June to August 1964 . The world premiere took place on March 6, 1965 in Vienna; in Germany, the work started on March 15, 1968.
Gerd Krauss took care of the equipment, Hans Nowotny, Elfriede Mitterhuemer and Helga Pinnow designed the costumes. Rosella Hightower was responsible for the choreography and dance . The production management was in the hands of Robert Russ.
Reviews
“The libretto of the comic opera offered Tressler's sense of realism friction surfaces. His sense of comedy comes to the fore here, albeit slowed down by the slow pace that the musical structure inevitably brought with it. The mixture of batch-like theatrical play and a purely cinematic resolution with a very mobile camera largely meets the needs of the original. Nevertheless, this opera film also lacks the courage to adopt a radical aesthetic that brings the contradictions of opera and film together to form a higher unity (such as Ophüls' THE SELLED BRIDE and Straub / Huillets MOSES UND ARON). "
"A largely successful film adaptation of Otto Nicolai's opera in a rustic, rustic style."
On film.at it says: "Tressler's concept for LUSTIGEN WIBERN VON WINDSOR demonstrates that opera on the screen should not be a film theater, but a story told in original visual language. The auditory supports a turbulent, never tiring game plot, its staging ideas are well timed. Tressler never lets the action stop, the viewer follows the song through the movements of the protagonists. The film scene becomes a small stage. The first screen appearance by Lucia Popp is remarkable for opera fans. "
"" THE FUNNY WOMEN FROM WINDSOR are an insider tip, not only for opera fans. The film adaptation of the opera cleverly combines the possibilities of the camera (Tressler's favorite cinematographer Sepp Riff together with Hannes Staudinger) with a slapstick-like, totally relaxed staging and elements of a conscious cinema impur. " "
"" Miss Boky may well become the Brigitte Bardot of the opera world. The film has hardly begun before she is out of her clothes and into a wash-tub bath that involves pulchritudinious displays of a kind never seen on the opera stage. And she can sing, too. ""
Web links
- The Merry Wives of Windsor at theInternet Movie Database(English)
- The funny women from Windsor at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Merry Wives of Windsor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Funny Wives of Windsor on film.at
Remarks
- ↑ Translation: "Miss Boky could very well become the Brigitte Bardot of the opera world. The film has barely started when she has already taken off her clothes and taken a bath in a wash tub that conveys such beautiful views as one has so far could never watch on the opera stage. And she can also sing. "