THE MAGIC FLUTE (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) (FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1975
• Genre: Music
• Plot: A production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" is presented, this film which blurs the lines of it as a stage production - not only with aspects of the theater stage shown, but also the occasional shot of the audience members watching it, and the performers going through their backstage routines during intermission - and a movie as the set moves out from the confines of the stage. The actual story concerns Tamino, a prince, falling in love with Pamina solely from seeing her photograph, Pamina's mother, the Queen of the Night, vowing that Pamina will be his if he rescues her from Sarastro, a demon who has captured her. On behalf of the Queen, three of her attendants, "ladies", who saved Tamino from a serpent, provide him with a magic flute to entice Pamina, and three child angels, who will act as his guides. The ladies also dispatch the pan-flute playing Papageno, a bird catcher who laments not being married himself, with Tamino, they providing him with magic bells as protection. Tamino will discover that not relayed to him by the Queen and her ladies is as it appears, he and Papageno who will have to go through a trial of enlightenment to reach their desired ends.
• Cast: Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Elisabeth Erikson, Britt-Marie Aruhn, Kirsten Vaupel, Birgitta Smiding, Ulrik Cold, Birgit Nordin, Ragnar Ulfung, Erik Sædén, Ulf Johansson, Gösta Prüzelius, Jerker Arvidson, Hans Johansson, Erland von Heijne, Ansgar Krook, Urban Malmberg, Nina Harte, Lauri Lehto, Jane Darling, Helena Högberg, Sonja Lund, Elina Lehto, Lena Wennergren, Lisbeth Zachrisson, Gösta Bäckelin, Sixten Fark, Arne Hendriksen, Sven-Erik Jacobsson, Folke Jonsson, Hans Kyhle, Einar Larsson, Carl Henrik Qvarfordt, Sigfrid Svenson, Bo W. Lindström, Daniel Bergman, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Bergman, Magnus Blomkvist, Lars-Owe Carlberg, Donya Feuer, Helene Friberg, János Herskó, Alootook Ipellie, Erland Josephson, Käbi Laretei, Sven Nykvist, Liv Ullmann, Emanuel Schikaneder, Alf Henrikson
• Director: Ingmar Bergman
• Runtime: 2:15
• Company: The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie