Where to watch · United States
Not on any service here yet.
Salome (1971)
Directed by Werner Schroeter
Drama, TV Movie · 1h 21m
Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart, Bellini, and Donizetti. Elfi Mikesch, the cinematographer of Schroeter’s later films, designed the film’s sumptuous costumes. A contemporary critic for Le Monde wrote admiringly of Schroeter’s depiction of "the deadly struggle between dark Christian morality and luminous paganism.“
Cast
Mascha Rabben
Magdalena Montezuma
René Schoenenberger
Crew
- Director
- Werner Schroeter
- Screenplay
- Werner Schroeter
- Writer
- Oscar Wilde
- Director of Photography
- Robert van Ackeren
- Editor
- Ila von Hasperg
- Producer
- Christoph Holch
Details
- Release date
- 1971-06-11
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, Arabic
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- IFAGE Filmproduktion, ZDF