A Midsummer Night's Dream (1983)
| Movie | |
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| German title | A midsummer night's dream |
| Original title | Sogno di una notte d'estate |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 110 (German: 90) minutes |
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| Director | Gabriele Salvatores |
| script | Gabriele Salvatores after William Shakespeare |
| production | Sergio Lentini for Politecne Cin.ca and RAI |
| music | Mauro Pagani |
| camera | Dante Spinotti |
| cut | Gabriella Cristiani |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (original title: Sogno di una notte d'estate ) is an Italian rock musical film that is based on the Shakespearian comedy of the same title . Gabriele Salvatores directed the film, which was shown in German cinemas in 1984, 1983 a. a. with Gianna Nannini , who was positively noted by the otherwise rather negative criticism.
action
Theseus and Ippolita, a middle-class couple, are staying in a beautiful house in Lombardy to prepare for his wedding. Four other young people - Lysander, Demetrius, Erminia and Elena - also belong to the society; all are weighed or angry in changing constellations. In a holiday home nearby, a group of people are rehearsing the play by Pyramus and Thisbe, which is to be performed as a gift for the couple. Elves and other mythical figures of the forest and of legends live in the hotels in the area, including Oberon and Titania, who come to life at night and take people into fairytale fantasies in which the love magician Puck struggles to keep all emotions under control. In the end the two men Demetrius and Lysander become a couple; but a double wedding saves the bourgeois facade.
criticism
The Fischer Film Almanac noted in 1985 snappy: "Shakespeare's immortal drama will survive this uninspired version." The lexicon of international film wrote: "The Dream Game [...] gets into the symbolically overloaded and despite technical complexity rather unimaginative, theatrical staging the film" Nightmare "." The local critics praised the film as the first Italian attempt at a rock opera, but also saw the complete creativity to the brink of the absurd and the bizarre, which was bitchy and mannered. Nothing would stick to the mixture of recitatives, singing, ballet, set, acting, documentary snippets and dream images.
Remarks
The film is based on the play shown in the Teatro dell'Elfo 1981/1982 and was shown for the first time at the Venice Film Festival .
Web links
- A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
Individual evidence
- ^ Fischer Verlag, 1986
- ↑ A Midsummer Night's Dream. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ F. Zangrando in: Il Giazzettino , November 1983