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Meeting Venus (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Istvan Szabo

Written By:
Michael Hirst
Istvan Szabo

Actors:
Glenn Close ..... Karin Anderson
Niels Arestrup ..... Zoltan Szanto
Kiri Te Kanawa ..... Elisabeth (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
René Kollo ..... Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
Håkan Hagegård ..... Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
Waltraud Meier ..... Venus (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
Renate Spingler ..... A young shepherd (Tannhäuser highlights perfomed by) (voice)
Matthias Hölle ..... The Landgrave (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
Kim Begley ..... Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
Robin Leggate ..... Heinrich der Schreiber (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
Rodney Macann ..... Biterolf (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
Roderick Earle ..... Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
Marián Labuda ..... Von Schneider
Maïté Nahyr ..... Maria Krawiecki

Synopsis:

Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Admidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love. Filmed in Budapest, Meeting Venus was far from a box-office hit thanks in great part to an inadequate advertising campaign; hopefully it will gain the wide audience it deserves on videocassette. (PS: Glenn Close's singing is dubbed by real-life opera luminary Kiri Te Kanawa. We tell you this because the lyp-synching is done so well that you might actually believe that Close is performing those arias herself).

A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and the current 'United Europe'. A Hungarian conductor (Arestrup) attempts to mount a bold new production of TANNHAUSER while navigating the snares and pitfalls of 'artistic' egos, rampant nationalism, internal company and union politics, and precarious funding.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 May, 2009.

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