Puck
This is a live performance of BENJAMIN BRITTEN's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" shot at Teatro del Liceu in April of 2005 featuring singers DAVID DANIELS, OFELIA SALA, GORDON GIETZ & WILLIAM DAZELEY. HARRY BICKET conducts Orquestra Simfonica del Gran Teatro del Liceu. The production received such great reviews & audience reaction that performances continued in various opera houses throughout Europe that same year. The stage direction by ROBERT CARSEN also received rave reviews and is what is seen here in this program.
Kamenev
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Man Under Microscope
Praga, 1919. Tras el asesinato de un compañero, Kafka, un empleado de una compañía de seguros, ingresa en un misterioso grupo subversivo.
Ariel
Entre 1599 y 1611, Próspero, ex duque de Milán, es desterrado con su hija Miranda a una isla muy alejada de Europa por su hermano Antonio y el aliado de éste, Alonso, actual Rey de Nápoles. Pero, cuando Miranda y el hijo de su principal adversario se enamoran, se le presenta la oportunidad de vengarse de todos sus enemigos.
Cyprus Charlie
Dexter, un actor que lleva varios años encasillado en papeles de "un tipo alto", se enamora de una enfermera que expresa siempre lo que siente. Cuando por fin Dexter consigue un papel en una musical importante "El hombre elefante", su novia le deja porque sospecha que tiene una aventura con una de las actrices de la obra teatral...
Sobibor es un pequeño pero activo campo de concentración, donde la única esperanza de salvación es la huida. Existe un plan para sacar de ese infierno al mayor número de personas posible, pero hay que tener en cuenta que, de prosperar la fuga, los alemanes tienen como norma eliminar a tantos prisioneros como hombres consigan escapar.
Russian Officer
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a country house on the Anglo-Latvian border. The guests are a cross section of the ruling classes.
Greek Restaurant Owner
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
1973. Paris is still a party for the marginalized, the exiles, the "flower children" of a dying era. There is Emil, American actor, Joaquin, exiled from Franco regime with his friends Jose-Luis, Balthazar and many others... Joaquin writes and sometimes drowns in artificial paradises... He loves Emil, who is very attracted to Wendy... Friendship as much as love circulates in this microcosm, but loneliness and reality end up catching up with each other... Shot in ten days, edited in hiding, Une histoire d'Emil et Joaquin is one of the first French films to depict a sexual relationship between two men, long before the decriminalization of homosexuality in France.
