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Bergman’s gleefully theatrical film of Mozart’s opera – sung in Swedish – is vivacious, funny and enthralling.
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Director
Ingmar Bergman
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With
Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Elisabeth Eriksson
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Sweden 1975. 135min
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Digital
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Certificate
U
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English subtitles
Bergman’s delightful film of Mozart’s opera – sung in Swedish – was shot in a (recreated) 18th-century theatre, allowing him to emphasise the piece’s artifice and stagecraft; we even get to go backstage occasionally, glimpsing the singers relaxing. The result, clearly a labour of love on the part of a director who’d loved and drawn on Mozart for years, is vivacious, funny and enthralling.
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