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Disturbing scene from "Stroszek" (by Werner Herzog) This is a disturbing scene from "Stroszek", a 1977 film by Werner Herzog. The plot below is taken from Wikipedia. Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S.) is a Berlin street singer. Released from prison and warned to stop drinking, he immediately goes to a bar where he befriends Eva (Eva Mattes), a prostitute down on her luck, whom he lets stay with him. After they are harried and beaten by Eva's former pimps, they decide to leave Germany and accompany Bruno's eccentric elderly neighbour Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz), who was planning to move to Wisconsin to live with his American nephew. In that winter-bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress and Scheitz pursues his interest in animal magnetism. The pair buy a trailer, but, as bills mount the bank threatens to repossess it. Eva falls back into prostitution to supplement her wages, but it is not enough. She tires of Bruno's drunken ramblings and deserts him by leaving with a couple of truck drivers bound for Vancouver. A man from the bank visits Bruno, who is now drinking steadily, and has him sign off on the repossession. The home is auctioned, and he and Scheitz, who is convinced that it is all a conspiracy, set off to confront the "conspiracy." Finding the bank closed, they hold up a barber shop adjacent to it, and then go shopping in a small grocery store across the street. The police arrive and arrest Scheitz, leaving Bruno. Holding a large, frozen turkey and the gun, Bruno returns to the garage where he works, loads the truck with many beers, and drives off. When his truck breaks, he eats and tells his story to a German speaking business man at a restaurant. Then he goes into a tourist trap across the street, where he rides a ski lift with his frozen turkey. After Bruno disappears from view a single shot rings out, presumably his suicide. The film ends with a sequence showing a dancing chicken, a duck playing a bass drum and a rabbit riding a toy fire truck. Tags: Stroszek 1977 Werner Herzog Bruno S. disturbing scene home auctioned |
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Amici Miei - "Bella figlia dell'amore" (Verdi's "Rigoletto") "Amici miei" is a 1975 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It's a movie about friendship and in this part you can see this group of friends singing for the first time "Bella figlia dell'amore", from Verdi's "Rigoletto". I suggest you to look for the whole movie, it's a masterpiece, a great example of the Italian Comedy Style. Tags: Amici Miei Commedia all'italiana Verdi Rigoletto Bella figlia dell'amore Monicelli Germi Tognazzi |
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Vincenzo Bellini - Symphony from "Norma" Vincenzo Bellini - Symphony from "Norma" _________________________________________ Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (November 3, 1801 -- September 23, 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines, Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera. Born in Catania, Sicily, Bellini was a child prodigy from a highly musical family and legend has it he could sing an aria of Valentino Fioravanti at eighteen months, began studying music theory at two, the piano at three, and by the age of five could, apparently, play well. His first composition is said to have dated from his sixth year. Regardless of the veracity of these claims, it is certain that Bellini grew up in a musical household and that a career as a musician was never in doubt. Having learned from his grandfather, Bellini left provincial Catania in June 1819 to study at the conservatory in Naples, with a stipend from the municipal government of Catania. By 1822 he was in the class of the director Nicolò Zingarelli, studying the masters of the Neapolitan school and the orchestral works of Haydn and Mozart. It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce a promising student to the public with a dramatic work: the result was Bellini's first opera Adelson e Salvini an opera semiseria that was presented at the Conservatory's theater. Bianca e Gernando met with some success at the Teatro San Carlo, leading to an offer from the impresario Barbaia for an opera at La Scala. Il pirata was a resounding immediate success and began Bellini's faithful and fruitful collaboration with the librettist and poet Felice Romani, and cemented his friendship with his favored tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini, who had sung in Bianca e Gernando. Bellini spent the next years, 1827--33 in Milan, where all doors were open to him. Sparking controversy in the press for its new style and its restless harmonic shifts into remote keys, La straniera (1828) was even more successful than Il pirata, and allowed Bellini to support himself solely by his opera commissions. The composer showed the taste for social life and the dandyism that Heinrich Heine emphasized in his literary portrait of Bellini (Florentinische Nächte, 1837). Opening a new theater in Parma, his Zaira (1829) was a failure at the Teatro Ducale, but Venice welcomed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was based on the same Italian sources as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The next five years were triumphant, with major successes with his greatest works, La sonnambula, Norma and I puritani, cut short by Bellini's premature death. Bellini died in Puteaux, near Paris of acute inflammation of the intestine, and was buried in the cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; his remains were removed to the cathedral of Catania in 1876. The Museo Belliniano housed in the Gravina Cruyllas Palace, in Catania, preserves memorabilia and scores. [from Wikipedia] Tags: Vincenzo Bellini Symphony Norma Maria Callas Ludwig Corelli Zaccaria Teatro alla Scala Serafin |