Iphigenia on Tauris (1969)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Iphigenia on Tauris |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 130 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter German |
| production | German television broadcasting |
| camera | Stefan Jerzy Zweig |
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Iphigenie auf Tauris is the studio recording of the German television station of a production by Wolfgang Langhoff at the Deutsches Theater Berlin based on a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from 1969 .
Plot (short version)
Iphigenia , sacrificed by her father Agamemnon for a war advantage, is saved to Tauris by the goddess Diana . Thoas, the Tauride king, wants Iphigenia to be his wife. Because she opposes him, the old custom is to be reintroduced that every foreigner who comes into the country is killed. The next stranger is Orestes , Iphigenie's brother.
Plot (detailed)
production
The recording was premiered on TV on January 1, 1969 and was last shown on TV in 1974. On January 26, 2014, the film premiere took place in the Babylon cinema in Berlin , with the support of the Ernst Busch Society and the DRA .
The theater premiere took place on October 4, 1963 on the occasion of the Berlin Festival. After the death of Wolfgang Langhoff, Herwart Grosse took over the role of king.
criticism
At the premiere in the Deutsches Theater, Gerda Ewald found in the Berliner Zeitung that Heinrich Kilger's set and costumes underline the simplicity and size of the play.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerda Ewald in the Berliner Zeitung of October 6, 1963
Web links
- Iphigenia in Tauris in the Internet Movie Database (English)