| Moses und Aron | |
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| Directed by | Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet |
| Produced by | Danièle Huillet Jean-Marie Straub |
| Written by | Arnold Schoenberg (libretto) |
| Starring | Günter Reich Louis Devos |
| Music by | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Cinematography | Renato Berta Giovanni Canfarelli Modica Saverio Diamante Ugo Piccone |
| Edited by | Danièle Huillet Jean-Marie Straub |
Release date | 1975 (United States release) |
Running time | 107 min. |
| Language | German |
Moses und Aron, known in English as Moses and Aaron, is a 1975 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet based on the unfinished opera of the same title by Arnold Schoenberg. During its 1975 run at US festivals, it was also known as Aaron and Moses, and was frequently reviewed as such.
It is one of three films based on Schoenberg works Straub and Huillet directed, the other two being Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenbergs Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene , a short film made directly before Moses und Aron, and, over two decades later, an adaptation of the one-act comic opera Von heute auf morgen. The film retains the unfinished nature of the original opera, with the third act consisting of a single shot with no music as Moses delivers a monologue based on Schoenberg's notes.
The film was shot on location in Italy and Egypt. It utilized the same team of cinematographers as Straub and Huillet's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach. The soundtrack and cast of the film is the same as the 1974 recording conducted by Michael Gielen (Philips 6700 084).
The original German version of the film was dedicated to Holger Meins, a former cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction in the early 1970s and died on hunger strike in prison. This dedication was censored by German broadcasters for the film's first transmission in 1975. The English subtitles of Schoenberg's dense German libretto were prepared by assistant Gregory Woods, who is credited on the DVD.
The film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.[1]
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Moses und Aron". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
Notes
- Shawn, Allen, Holy Ghosts: Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron meets Straub and Huillet, Film Comment, journal of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, November/December 2008.
- Woods, Gregory. "A Work Journal of the Straub/Huillet Film Moses and Aaron by Gregory Woods." Enthusiasm 1 (1975):32-54. With "Notes" by Danièle Huillet.[1]
External links
- Moses und Aron at IMDb