MOSES UND ARON

Danièle Huillet
AUT, BRD, FRA, I 1974
107 min
V'04

Just as they did with their film on Bach, the Straubs worked on this huge project for years: a film adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's opera \"Moses and Aaron\", sung in the open air in an old Roman amphitheatre, with a golden calf, dance, blood and wild animals. In comparison to all the shabby film versions of operas shot for middle-class intellectuals, the Straubs' film is an impressive, radical production, in which nothing has been sacrificed and no unnecessary directing antics have been added. Those who apply the words asceticism and severity to the Straubs, should watch this magnificent, sensuous spectacle, in which everything is saturated with the beauty of necessity. \"The Straubs\", says conductor Michael Gielen, \"are something like a living conscience of music\".

Credits
eine Koproduktion des Österreichischen Rundfunks und der ARD (einschließlich Westberlin) unter der Federführung des Hessischen Rundfunks, hergestellt von der Janus-Film & Fernsehen unter Mitfinanzierung von Straub-Huillet, der RAI, dem ORTF und der Taurus-Film, in deutsch-französischer Koproduktion der Janus Film & Fernsehen mit der NEF Diffusion