Peter Watkins Collection (4 Films) - 5-DVD Box Set ( Edvard Munch / Privilege / Aftenlandet / Fritänkaren ) ( Edvard Munch / Privilege / Evening Land / The Freethinker )

Peter Watkins Collection (4 Films) - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Edvard Munch / Privilege / Aftenlandet / Fritänkaren
Alternate Title: Edvard Munch / Privilege / Evening Land / The Freethinker
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Moscow International Film Festival

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

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
640 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1967 - 1994 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Watkins

Written By:
Peter Watkins
Norman Bogner
Johnny Speight
Carsten Clante
Poul Martinsen
Hedvig Blidberg
Charlie Kristiansson

Actors:
Geir Westby ..... Edvard Munch
Gro Fraas ..... Fru Heiberg
Kerstii Allum ..... Sophie Munch - 1868
Eric Allum ..... Edvard Munch - 1868
Susan Troldmyr ..... Laura Munch - 1868
Ragnvald Caspari ..... Peter Andreas Munch - 1868
Katja Pedersen ..... Inger Munch - 1868
Hjordis Ulriksen ..... Housemaid - 1868
Inger-Berit Oland ..... Sophie Munch - 1875
Amund Berge ..... Edvard Munch - 1875
Camilla Falk ..... Laura Munch - 1875
Erik Kristiansen ..... Peter Andreas Munch - 1875
Anne-Marie Daehli ..... Inger Munch - 18
Johan Halsborg ..... Dr. Christian Munch - 1884
Gro Jarto ..... Laura Catherine Munch - 1884
Paul Jones ..... Steven Shorter
Jean Shrimpton ..... Vanessa Ritchie
Mark London ..... Alvin Kirsch
William Job ..... Andrew Butler
Max Bacon ..... Julie Jordan
Jeremy Child ..... Martin Crossley
James Cossins ..... Professor Tatham
Frederick Danner ..... Marcus Hooper
Victor Henry ..... Freddie K
Arthur Pentelow ..... Leo Stanley
Steve Kirby ..... Squit
Malcolm Rogers ..... Rev. Jeremy Tate
Doreen Mantle ..... Miss Crawford
Michael Graham ..... Timothy Arbutt
Michael Barrington ..... The Bishop of Essex
Bent Andersen
Kai Schøning Andersen
Mogens Andersen
Oluf Andersen
Patricia Bay Andersen
Steen Andersen
Peter O. Back
Niels Baden
Carsten Baess
Kent Bajer
Jon Bang Carlsen
Erling Barfoed
Peter Bay
Allan Beattie
Bengt Bengtsen
Bodil Bergmann
Poul Bergmann
Timme Bille
Ernst Blomjous
Helle Bo
Peter Boesen
Aage Bonde
Mette Borker
Steen Bouet
Torben Boëtius
Claus Bølling
Michael Christensen
Svend Christensen
Walther Christensen
Borge Christiansen
Carsten Clante
Ole Dupont
Jørgen Ebberhøj
Hjørdis Ecks
Walther Preben Egeklint
Dieter Eggers
Lars Engels
Ib Eriksen
Kjeld Eriksen
Jørgen Esping
Rolf Falk-Larssen
Claus Fauerskov
J. Fornet
Arne Frederiksen
Peer Frederiksen
Morten From
Mette Fugl
Kim Goetz
Carl Christian Gram
Lene Gram
Alexander Gruszynski
Niels Olaf Gudme
Søren Hall
C.P. Hansen
Erik C. Hansen
Nils Vilhelm Hansen
Marcel Henaff
Leif Hermansen
Lotte Hilden
Bjarne Hjulmand
Finn Holm
Jan Holm
Jan Holmberg
Patrick Howard
Frank Hummelgaard
Robert Hø
Franco Invernizzi
Hans Peter Jacobsen
Karl Jacobsen
Xeon Janusz
Bent Brøndum Jensen
Erik Dybdal Jensen
Erik Klint Jensen
Gert Kim Jensen
Jørgen B. Jensen
Kurt Højland Jensen
Paul Evald Jensen
Leif Christian Johansen
Svend Gulmann Johansen
Tommy Johansen
Gertie Jung
Vilhelm Jung
Bent Raahauge Jørgensen
Børge E. Jørgensen
Flemming Jørgensen
Rene Jørgensen
Carl Jørn
Bjørn Kaupang
Birte Koppel
Kim Løvetand
Carl Madsen
Poul Martinsen
Jytte Ovesen
Camilla Skousen
Claus August van der Got
Lotte Væver
Yasmine Garbi ..... Harriet Bosse
Anders Mattsson ..... August Strindberg
Lena Settervall ..... Siri von Essen

Synopsis:

***WARNING***Only Privilege & Evening Land contain English language***
Edvard Munch (1974) (French audio - French subtitles)
Edvard Munch is a 1974 biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch, written and directed by Peter Watkins. The film covers about thirty years of Munch's life, focusing on the influences that shaped his art, particularly the prevalence of disease and death in his family and his youthful affair with a married woman.

Privilege (1967) (English audio - French subtitles)
The story is set in the then near-future of the 1970s and concerns a disillusioned pop singer, played by Jones, who is manipulated by the church and state which seek to turn him into a messianic leader.

Evening Land (1977) (French audio - English & French subtitles)
Evening Land presents fictitious events in the Europe of those days. It opens in a Copenhagen shipyard with a strike due to the construction of four submarines, potential carriers of nuclear weapons for the French Navy, beside the salary freeze that the deal has entailed, and as an anti-nuclear protest.

The Freethinker (1994) (French audio - French subtitles)
A half-deconstructed byproduct of a collective high-school video production course, Watkins' Strindberg biopic (and companion piece to his earlier Münch) opens as an unassuming romantic chronicle before delving into fin-de-siecle anti-monarchical rioting, postnaturalist literary projects and the mid-1990s political situation.

Edvard Munch (1974) (French audio - French subtitles)
Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe's most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes back to the death from consumption of his mother, when he was five, his sister's death, and his near death at 13 from pulmonary disease. The film finds enduring significance in Munch's brief affair with 'Mrs. Heiberg' and his participation in the café society of anarchist Hans Jaeger in Christiania and later in Berlin with Strindberg. Through it all comes Munch's melancholy and his desire to render on canvas, cardboard, paper, stone, and wood his innermost feelings.

Privilege (1967) (English audio - French subtitles)
Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity for projects like increasing the consumption of apples after a bumper crop as an aid to farmers. The handlers decide that Steven should support God and Country next. This leads to, among other things, a rock version of 'Onward Christian Soldiers,' and the inclusion of a Nazi salute to make it clear (to the viewer) how far the British population will be taken for love of God and Country under Steven's guidance. Steven is very plastic in his direction, shifting as his handlers point him toward new projects until he meets Vanessa Ritchie, an artist who makes him look at what's happening.

Evening Land (1977) (French audio - English & French subtitles)
Evening Land concerns itself with two interrelated media events: a worker's strike and the kidnapping of a political official by a guerilla organization. Both stories are told in two ways: through the media's coverage of the events, and through the self-documentation of the parties involved. The film can be trying: Watkins was a genuinely political animal, and in the film he shows himself to be concerned with the nitty-gritty of politics, particularly the protracted inner workings of a labor union. But the film is also rewarding. Watkins convincingly lets play out a nightmarish scenario in which the striking workers are brutally attacked by the police and one of the kidnappers needlessly killed (also by the police).

The Freethinker (1994) (French audio - French subtitles)
Acclaimed British filmmaker Peter Watkins collaborates with twenty-four students from the Swedish Folk High School in Biskops-Arno to craft this highly unconventional look at the life of controversial 19th Century dramatist August Stindberg. An iconoclast who flouted the conventions of then-contemporary society to promote political and social change, Stindberg and his freethinking followers were considered outcasts whose revolutionary ideas posed a great danger to the standards of society. By purposefully structuring his film in a carefully layered, spiral manner, director Watkins aims to reflect the filmmaker's admitted concern over the influence of mass media while simultaneously suggesting ways in which that same media might share its unique power with the people in the not-so-distant future. In a curious call back to the subject of the film, The Freethinker was initially boycotted by Swedish television.

Edvard Munch (1974) (French audio - French subtitles)
Edvard Munch is a 1974 biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch, written and directed by Peter Watkins. The film covers about thirty years of Munch's life, focusing on the influences that shaped his art, particularly the prevalence of disease and death in his family and his youthful affair with a married woman.

Privilege (1967) (English audio - French subtitles)
The story is set in the then near-future of the 1970s and concerns a disillusioned pop singer, played by Jones, who is manipulated by the church and state which seek to turn him into a messianic leader.

Evening Land (1977) (French audio - English & French subtitles)
Evening Land presents fictitious events in the Europe of those days. It opens in a Copenhagen shipyard with a strike due to the construction of four submarines, potential carriers of nuclear weapons for the French Navy, beside the salary freeze that the deal has entailed, and as an anti-nuclear protest. In parallel with this, a group of radical demonstrators kidnaps the Danish minister of the EC during a summit, as a token of support with the strikers. The Danish police brutally repress the demo and crush the 'terrorists'. Evening Land was released to both a hostile left and right wing, and the few film critics who valued it pointed out that it strayed from the style that Watkins had developed in his previous films. Danmarks Radio refused to broadcast it, and Watkins decided it was high time to leave Scandinavia and start what would be a new period of voluntary exile.

The Freethinker (1994) (French audio - French subtitles)
A half-deconstructed byproduct of a collective high-school video production course, Watkins' Strindberg biopic (and companion piece to his earlier Münch) opens as an unassuming romantic chronicle before delving into fin-de-siecle anti-monarchical rioting, postnaturalist literary projects and the mid-1990s political situation. Based more on Watkin's late-life treatise 'Media Crisis' than Strindberg's oeuvre, Fritankaren is a quietly experimental condemnation of spectatorship, objectivity, and the elusive quest for individual freedom.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 18 July, 2013.

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