Knight Bluebeard (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Knight Bluebeard |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 139 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Walter Felsenstein (theater) Georg Mielke (film) |
| script | Walter Felsenstein Horst Seeger |
| production | DEFA on behalf of East German television |
| music | Jacques Offenbach |
| camera |
Otto Merz Hans-Jürgen Reinecke |
| cut | Thea Richter |
| occupation | |
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Knight Bluebeard is a studio recording by DEFA, commissioned by GDR television , of Walter Felsenstein's staging of the operetta Bluebeard in three acts by Jacques Offenbach at the Komische Oper Berlin .
action
Since this is the stage production, see: Bluebeard (operetta)
production
The arrangement by Walter Felsenstein and Horst Seeger is based on the libretto created by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy . The production premiered on September 24, 1963 at the Komische Oper Berlin, where it had already been shown in 163 performances by the time filming began. The orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin was under the direction of Karl-Fritz Voigtmann . The costumes were designed by Helga Scherff and the stage design was created by Paul Lehmann, based on the stage design by Wilfried Werz .
The operetta was recorded as a color film in the DEFA studios for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The film was shown in the cinema for the first time on April 27, 1973 in a festive preview at the Berlin Kino International . The first broadcast on television took place on June 10, 1973 in the first program of the television of the GDR .
A restored version from 2008 is available on DVD.
criticism
Hansjürgen Schaefer states in New Germany :
“Overall, however, this 'screen' bluebeard not only offers a welcome opportunity to bring Offenbach's masterpiece, interpreted by Walter Felsenstein, closer to millions. He also achieves a new, own artistic quality and should have just as much further-reaching suggestions to offer for television opera work as his stage original already offered for music theater work. "
Mimosa Künzel writes in the Neue Zeit :
“In the bombastic stage design with the fascinating costumes there are grandiose color chords in major and minor. They act and sing with playful elegance. "
Gisela Herrmann wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :
“The cheerful opening credits raid of the 'Komische Oper' in the DEFA studio simply made the audience excited and set them in the right mood for the tingling parodic masterpiece. So you savored a great artistic event in music theater by taking it as the imaginative direction, the not only excellent singing but also incredibly lively soloists and the action-packed camera gave: as a funny, ironic, charming story. A really great evening because it is really not effective for opera connoisseurs alone. "
The Lexicon of International Films writes that this is more a documentation of the grand production than a cinematic interpretation of the opera. Nevertheless, the film is highly worth seeing and hearing.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 28, 1973, p. 1
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 13, 1973, p. 4
- ↑ Neue Zeit of June 13, 1973, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 13, 1973, p. 6
- ↑ Knight Bluebeard. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 2, 2018 .