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La vie de Galilée

Mar 24, 1992

2h 30m

★ 0.0

Overview

Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine Vitez.

Genres

TV Movie

Production Companies

La Comédie-Française

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Cast

Galilée

Roland Bertin

Sagredo et Mucius

Dominique Rozan

Le cardinal inquisiteur

Jacques Sereys

Le cardinal Bellarmin

François Beaulieu

Le cardinal Berberini - puis le pape Urbain VIII

Marcel Bozonnet

Mme Sarti

Martine Chevallier

Andrea Sarti

Jean-Yves Dubois

Virginie Galilée

Valérie Dréville

Members of an otherwise typical New York Brooklyn family are "tortured" by a kind of hereditary madness. In the meantime, the adopted nephew Mortimer tries to do everything to protect his two aunts, who indulge in a variety of dangerous acts, such as poisoning lonely and homeless elderly people, and burying them in the basement of their house. When another niece, Jonathan, arrives, the situation will spiral out of control. The play was released on DVD by Radiotileorasi magazine in December 2010 (78th DVD of the "ERT Cultural Film Archive" series).

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Le Médecin malgré lui

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No overview available.

7.0

'o Tuono 'e Marzo

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Návrat do pekla

Jan 1, 1974

No overview available.

10.0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I

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Unabridged production of Goethe's Faust Ⅰ by Peter Stein's Faust Project.

8.8

Christmas at the Cupiello Household

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5.9

Christmas Encore

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6.1

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7.0

Gemini

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Filmed version of the hit Broadway show with two of the original stars. Set in the backyard of a blue collar South Philadelphia neighborhood early in the summer of 1973, the comedy-drama focuses on the 21st birthday celebration of Harvard student Francis Geminiani. In attendance are his divorced blue collar father Fran and Fran's widowed girlfriend Lucille, next-door neighbor Bunny Weinberger and her overweight son Herschel, and Francis' classmates, the wealthy WASP Hastings siblings; Judith (who seeks romance with Francis) and Randy (the object of Francis' unexpressed affection), who have arrived unexpectedly, much to their friend's dismay. All are dysfunctional to varying degrees, and the interactions among them provide the play with its comic and dramatic moments.

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Lemonade

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6.9

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9.0

Örkény István: Tóték

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8.5

Gennareniello

Feb 19, 1978

Gennareniello, a crazy inventor, is married to Concettina and lives at home with his son Tommasino, full of tics, his spinster sister and with Matteo, a drawing master who makes plans for his inventions. Driven by his friends, the man courts the young teacher Anna and when his wife notices it, he is forced to run away from home, overwhelmed by the scorn of derision of friends and acquaintances who come to disguise him as a dandy, thus offending his dignity.

9.0

Samet Sons

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A Kuwaiti play talks about the life of Kuwaitis in the years of poverty experienced by Kuwaitis before the economic boom in the seventies, and discusses work in a comic framework of economic and social problems, including poverty, education, and health, by dealing with the stories of work heroes.

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On purge bébé

Mar 2, 1979

No overview available.

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Separate Tables

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A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."

7.2

Letters Home

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A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence with her mother Aurelia, from the time the poet was in university until her suicide. Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig recite Sylvia and Aurelia’s letters to the audience directly.