The Ludwig Van Picture Show//Carmen Jones

The second appointment with the musical series The Ludwig Van Picture Show features Carmen Jones, a movie directed by Otto Preminger in the 1954, with Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James and Pearl Bailey. The movie is an American version of the opera by Georges Bizet, Carmen, set during the second world war. The soundtrack follows the original opera score and the texts in English were written by Oscar Hammerstein II, a memorable musical poet, for the Broadway version. Moreover, the peculiarity of this movie was Preminger’s exclusive use of Afro-American actors, and that is why the movie was defined the first "all black" musical in movie history. This is definitely a funny, rhythmical and fiery movie, a nice example of contamination between genres and different communication levels.
Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
8 November 2008, 17.00

Free entrance

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