Bluebeard's Castle
Michael Powell / DE, 1963 / 62 min.
Daring, innovative adaptation of Béla Bartok’s opera. The intense psychodrama is replete with lively colours and expressionist sets. Norman Foster plays the murderous Bluebeard and Ana Raquel Satre his doomed wife Judith.
Béla Bartok’s 'Bluebeard’s Castle', a magnificent, one-act opera for two vocalists was itself an adaptation of a French folk song about a women discovering the sinister truth about her husband. This opera was once considered impossible to perform due to the lack of action on stage. However, film director Michael Powell used this to his advantage when he adapted Bluebeard’s Castle for West German TV. The result was a dark, intense opera that immerses viewers in its images and music.
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Director
Michael Powell
Production year
1963
Country
DE
Original title
Herzog Blaubarts Burg
Length
62 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger enjoyed huge success with films such as The Red Shoes (1948), Black Narcissus (1947) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Eye presents the first-ever extensive retrospective of Powell & Pressburger’s work in the Netherlands.
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