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1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
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Günter Reich, Louis Devos |
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Originally produced by Grasshopper Film in 1974. |
| Summary |
One of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s major films, MOSES AND AARON finds the filmmaking duo, through their exemplary craft, transforming a familiar Biblical tale into a borderline-surreal cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. Based on rigorous consideration and questioning of Biblical and archaeological history, particularly with respect to the collective memory — passed down and transcribed over hundreds of years, however inaccurately — of the Egyptian enslavement of the Hebrews and the Exodus, the film is concerned with the myth of human progress, and the transition from polytheism to monotheism. Set almost entirely within a Roman amphitheater whose history lends every precise line-reading and gesture, every startling camera move and cut, a totalizing force, Straub-Huillet’s adaptation of Schoenberg’s unfinished opera opens us to the stimulating worldview of a filmmaking duo whose masterful efforts are finally coming to light. *"The stark images are as passionated and engaging, profound and beautiful as the complex music to which they insightfully respond." - Richard Brody, **The New Yorker*** |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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In English |
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Motion pictures, German.
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Foreign films.
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Motion Pictures.
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Drama.
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Balts (Indo-European people).
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German language.
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Judaism.
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Motion pictures.
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Feature films.
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Huillet, Danièle, film director.
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Straub, Jean-Marie, film director.
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Reich, Günter, actor.
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Devos, Louis, actor.
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Grasshopper Film (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
6339754 Kanopy |
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