Die Tote Stadt (2009)

• 85%
• 2009
• Drame
• Musique
• Stefan Vinke
• Solveig Kringelborn
• Stephan Genz

Directeur de Pier Luigi Pizzi drew inspiration from Georges Rodenbach's short novel, "Bruges - La-Morte" which narrates the bizarre and sinister experience of a man who, having lost his wife, is mesmerized and hypnotisés by the atmosphere of the city of Bruges to the point that he believes to recognize his beloved one in a woman met in the streets. He is pour obsessed by this incredible event to think that he can bring the past back, but despite the two women's amazing likeness, the unique sensitivity and the feeling of the wife that he had loved for ten years are gone forever. Rodenbach turns the city of Bruges en a sinister and foggy stage where mystérieux événements take place. The urban spaces and the dead woman are deeply postes de travail, the city itself amplifies death as it mirrors the main character's feelings, his agonie, his tireless quest for an impossible love. This quest will lead him to death, dans le froid, dead Venetian waters. Erich W. Korngold was very touched by this novel and composed ...