THE MAGIC FLUTE Trollflojten
Ingmar
Bergman's 1975 film version of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte. Intended
as a television production and first shown on Swedish television 1975,
but was followed by a cinema release later that year. Widely viewed as
one of the most successful films of an opera ever, and an unusual item
in the director's oeuvre.
This scintillating screen
version of Mozart’s beloved opera showed Bergman’s deep knowledge of
music and his gift for expressing it in filmic terms. Casting some of
Europe’s finest soloists—among them Josef Köstlinger, Ulrik Cold, and
Håkan Hagegård—the director lovingly recreated the baroque theater of
the Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm to stage the story of the prince
Tamino (Köstlinger) and his zestful sidekick Papageno (Hagegård), who
seek to save a princess (Irma Urrila) from the clutches of evil. A
celebration of love, forgiveness, and the brotherhood of man, Flute is
considered by many to be the most exquisite opera film ever made. (Sweden, 1975, 135 min., G, .Swedish with English subtitles| Dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) stands as one
of the giants of world cinema and perhaps the father of the flowering
of art house movement in America during the 1960s and ’70s. This
selection of some of his greatest works feature new digital restorations
courtesy of Janus Films and the Swedish Film Institute
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FANNY AND ALEXANDER
THE SEVENTH SEAL
WILD STRAWBERRIES
PERSONA
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT
CRIES AND WHISPERS