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Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a grimly tragic narrative of violence and murder into one of the most powerful and original operas of the 20th century. Berg's uncompromising portrayal of brutality and madness generated much controversy, but the significance of Wozzeck was soon recognised; its compelling lyrical expansiveness, large-scale dramatic gestures and remarkable musical structures producing music of overwhelming emotional intensity. The Financial Times declared this to be 'a beautiful, moving, engrossing production… this is a consummate Wozzeck, blending clarity, lyricism, compassion and crushing force.'
Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil.
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
A portrait of a family in Berlin in the late 1970s, this film focuses on the mother.
