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Sebastiane (1976) (DVD) (*)

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

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

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Derek Jarman

Written By:
Paul Humfress
Derek Jarman

Actors:
Barney James ..... Severus
Neil Kennedy ..... Maximus
Leonardo Treviglio ..... Sebastiane
Richard Warwick ..... Justin
Donald Dunham ..... Claudius
Daevid Finbar ..... Julian
Ken Hicks ..... Adrian
Lindsay Kemp ..... Dancer
Steffano Massari ..... Marius
Janusz Romanov ..... Anthony
Gerald Incandela ..... Leopard Boy
Robert Medley ..... Emperor Diocletian

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Latin audio with English subtitles***Following his work with Ken Russell as production designer on The Devils, Derek Jarman made his debut as director with this story of the life of Saint Sebastian, the martyred roman soldier who was sent into exile and tortured. A poetic exploration of sexuality, the film is beautifully shot against a scorched desert landscape. The film earned a cult status after its release and when it was finally given a UK television broadcast ten years later, its depiction of male nudity and homoerotic content still proved controversial. Sebastiane set the tone for Jarman's uncompromising, highly personal and original style of filmmaking.

Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental, homocentric film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Imperial troops who is martyred when he refuses the homosexual advances of his pagan captain. Some might find the frequent use of full frontal male nudity offensive. This is the only English-made film released in England to have required English subtitles, and it is an early film by the noted experimental and outspokenly homosexual director Derek Jarman, who died in 1994.

300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Weakened by their desires, these men turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. However, Sebastianus becomes the target of lust for a homosexual centurion, but he rejects the man's advances.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 April, 2021.