Orpheus in the Underworld (1974)
Género : Comedia, Drama, Fantasía, Música
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 28M
Director : Horst Bonnet
Sinopsis
This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.
Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche").
In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It starred the dancers Louis Falco, Anna Duncan, and Nicolas Magallanes as Dionysius, Agave, and Pentheus respectively, and the experimental filmmakers Charles Levine, Willard Maas, Gregory Markopoulos, Marie Menken, Lloyd Williams and William Wood as the Chorus of Cameras. The film's score was by Teiji Ito.
El Dios del Trueno emprende un viaje que no se parece en nada a lo que se ha enfrentado hasta ahora: una búsqueda de la paz interior. Pero el retiro de Thor se ve interrumpido por un asesino galáctico conocido como Gorr el Carnicero de Dioses. Para hacer frente a la amenaza, Thor solicita la ayuda de Valkiria, de Korg y de su ex novia Jane Foster que, para sorpresa de Thor, empuña su martillo mágico, Mjolnir, como la Poderosa Thor. Juntos, se embarcan en una aventura cósmica en la que tendrán que descubrir el misterio de la venganza del Carnicero de Dioses y detenerlo antes de que sea demasiado tarde.
Si el mundo fuera solo un mundo de juegos, ¡todo sería absolutamente diferente! Luchando contra monstruos, subiendo de nivel, salvando el mundo, buscando tesoros, ¡sería una dicha! Si el mundo fuera así, ¿todo sería realmente feliz? ¿Sería el mundo tan mágico y místico como suena? En una tierra lejana, existe una mazmorra con una profundidad y un misterio inimaginables. Se puede encontrar en la ciudad de Ontario. Y en esa ciudad se hacen nuevos sueños y deseos. Un día, un nuevo aventurero con el nombre de Bell Cranel tropieza con la diosa Hestia. Ambos tienen sus propios objetivos y sueños. Bell quiere ser una de las más grandes aventureras de todos los tiempos, mientras que Hestia quiere ser alabada por seguidores leales y hacer que su propia hermandad sea famosa y exitosa. Tal es el comienzo de una nueva historia. ¡Te espera una gran aventura!
After a one night stand with the woman of his dreams, Nick starts experiencing otherworldly phenomena in his house during a party. As people disappear, their goal becomes clear: make it out of the party alive or fall victim to the Curse of the Siren.
When Eros shoots his arrows on the god Apollo, he falls madly in love with Daphne. But the nymph does not correspond to his love and escapes as she can from the harassment of Apollo. Animated short film based on the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne.
A hallucinatory retelling of the Greek myth about Pan and Syrinx's brutalist romantic love. Inspired by the short films of Maya Deren, Curtis Harrington and the art of Rosaleen Norton and Brett Whiteley, 'Love and the Demonic Psyche' channels French poet Arthur Rimbaud's proclivity for a derangement of the senses, culminating in a Cocteau style blood painting invocating the horned God of Panic. Encompassed in psychedelic visuals and Moroccan trance music, this film should be viewed in the spirit in which it was made.
A professor takes a group of students on a trip to an abandoned stage in a park, with the intention of finding a scenic setting for the production of the opera "Narcissus and Echo" by Anja Djordjevic. Boris, one of the students, thinks it would be a better idea a to make a film that uses existing recordings of the opera, but with a new story based on the ancient Greek myth about a young man in love with his own reflection in the lake. The relations between the students involved in the project and the surrounding events meld with the plot of this potential film, accentuating the various narcissism and the overall inability to suppress vanity and find real human contact.
Born with the beauty of the gods, Electra's lust for sexual gratification is exceeded only by her lust for vengeance. Enter a world of forbidden family love, betrayal and murder.
We follow the routine of a man (Júlio César Perrud), who resumes his monotonous and exhausting work and suspects a relationship with his wife (Grazi Dias), until, without apparent reason, objects, places and people with whom he disappeared.
Based on the operetta of the same name by Isaak Dunayevsky.
The port town of one of the small southern countries. After the Nazi occupiers left, the port's berths were empty, the steamers did not smoke, cargo cranes stood. Fearing retaliation for collaborating with enemies, port owner Georg Stan fled the city. After waiting a while and securing the support of local authorities, Stan nonetheless returns - and loading operations begin in the port.
While loading oranges, the sailor Yango and the beautiful Stella are preparing for the wedding. Suddenly, Stan makes a proposal to the girl and tricks her into agreeing. Upon learning of the deception, the girl runs away to Yango. Having discovered weapons intended to support fascism in the drawer of the hold, the heroes do everything possible to make the boxes fall to the bottom of the sea.
Based on the classic Broadway operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, this live television special became an annual Christmas tradition with rotating cast members.
A young girl becomes lost in a department store during the Christmas shopping rush. The frightened child is comforted by a department store Santa Claus who tells her a tale of storybook characters brought to life - of Tommy Tucker's love for the lovely Jane Piper and the cold-hearted villainy of evil Silas Barnaby. Through the girl's dreams, the viewer is transported to Toyland. Based on the classic Broadway operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, this was its second live television special production, with some new cast members and some returning.
A descendant of ancient Greek sirens searches for love on modern day Long Island. After many failed relationships she worries that the problem lies with her, but she remains determined to find her soulmate.
The Cyclops Polyphemus falls in love with the beautiful nymph Galatea, but she rejects him in favor of Acis, a shepherd. Furious, Polifemo goes in search of Acis to take revenge. Animated short film that explores the love and the sexuality from Greek myth of Galatea and Acis.
"Dos tragedias tardías y funestas de Eurípides se centran en la desafortunada hija del rey griego, Agamenón. ¿Sacrificará a Ifigenia para asegurar vientos favorables para su viaje a Troya? En Aulis, el drama continúa hasta que ella se salva. escapada a Tauris, Ifigenia se ve obligada a matar a su propio hermano antes de que, una vez más, los dioses volubles intervengan. Los escenarios operísticos de Gluck rara vez se escenifican en tándem, pero la producción de Pierre Audi presenta un caso oscuro y convincente para su unidad dramática. Los artistas aquí son exponentes experimentados de Gluck y juntos presentan una experiencia poderosamente idiomática.
Maud Goodin is the daughter of a millionaire, content with her present life, but she is an interesting conquest for those wants to get on the social ladder.
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda