Film director, theatre director, and opera director. The multi-talented Luchino Visconti is interviewed on this special to reflect upon his views on each of those art forms and he approaches each of them. Also features interviews with collaborators such as Vittorio de Sica, Leonardo Bernstein and Maria Callas.
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The protagonist of this Kafkaesque tale receives a telegram ordering him to appear at his own execution at dawn on the following day. His acquaintances try to reassure him that it is all probably just an administrative error, but the Complaints Office has already closed for the day and it is impossible to discover the truth. The man finally decides that, after all, it is perhaps best if he does actually appear at the scaffold the following day. This final film by Miklós Erdély examines a most vexing subject using his inimitable experimental cinematic solutions.
Miklós Erdély, a leading exponent of Hungarian Neo-Avant-garde, made a major contribution to the burgeoning in Hungary of experimental filmmaking in the 1970s and 80s through his works created in the Balázs Béla Studio. In this film he asked people to recount dreams and then an attempt was made at playing out and reconstructing these dreams. The situations that arise in front of the lens pose questions for both psychology and epistemology.
A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
Actress Diane Gardner talks extemporaneously about life, career goals and struggles in the world of show business, while colorful, animated images comment on, mirror, and probe the hidden meanings of her words.
A multiplicity of animation techniques enlivens this vision of the struggle between Shakespeare’s hapless buffoon and the forces of enchantment, set to the Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn.
One day is much like another: a man’s day, somewhere on the outskirts of the city, in a dilapidated room. The torment of getting up, trembling hands searching among empty one-liter bottles, a face snarling back from the mirror, the escape, a tattered jacket over his pajamas, a two-kilogram loaf of bread, burning liquor down his throat… At first glance, this day is no different from those that came before…