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Mazeppa (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
107 min + 29 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Bartabas

Written By:
Bartabas
Claude-Henri Buffard

Actors:
Miguel Bosé ..... Gericault
Bartabas ..... Franconi
Brigitte Marty ..... Mouste
Eva Schakmundes ..... Alexandrine
Fatima Aibout ..... Cascabelle
Bakary Sangaré ..... Joseph
Norman Calabrese ..... Ami de Géricault
Henri Carballido ..... Ami de Géricault
Frédéric Chavan ..... Ami de Géricault
Patrick Kabakdjian ..... Ami de Géricault
Michel Lacaille ..... Ami de Géricault
Claire Leroy ..... Amie de Géricault
Bernard Malandain ..... Ami de Géricault
Thierry Manuel ..... Ami de Géricault
Jean-Marie Paulus ..... Ami de Géricault

Synopsis:

'Mazeppa,' which calls itself a speculative meditation on the life and art of the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault, is a film that will literally make you dizzy. Conceived and directed by Bartabas, a renowned horse trainer and impresario of the Theatre Equestre Zingaro, it is an equestrian fever dream that suggests Peter Shaffer's play 'Equus,' but with the mystical fervor multiplied severalfold.

The movie studies equestrian form and anatomy with a painter's and a horse breeder's eye. Horses are graphically photographed excreting, mating and giving birth, as well as cantering, galloping and executing tricks. In one of the movie's most sensual moments, the camera compares human and equine limbs as naked humans make love in a stable.

Dramatized account of the 19th-century French painter Theodore Gericault, who joined the circus as a young man and came to develop a brilliant talent for painting horses. Writer/director Bartabas also stars as the circus master Franconi.

Filmed largely in Bartabas's theater in Aubervilliers, France, 'Mazeppa' has many breathtaking scenes of the troupe performing gymnastic feats on the backs of horses. As the camera tracks the animals trotting around and around the circus ring, you can lose your balance in the gliding merry-go-round swirl.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 15 December, 2008.

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