Werner Schroeter – Salome (1971)

Shot in a Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, this television film features the drama of Salome, who asks Herod for the head of John the Baptist, whom she loves and who rejected it.

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Schroeter’s virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart, Bellini, and Donizetti. Elfi Mikesch, the cinematographer of Schroeter’s later films, designed the film’s sumptuous costumes. A contemporary critic for Le Monde wrote admiringly of Schroeter’s depiction of “the deadly struggle between dark Christian morality and luminous paganism.

Salome (1971).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
Size: 	3.21 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	5 416 kb/s
BPP: 	0.104
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/9737E5DBF38EBC7/Salome_(1971).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/36AEB1D6319257E/salome.1971.eng.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English