Parsifal (2011)

movie

Country: Belgium
Genres: Music
Release: 2011-07-22
Director: Romeo Castellucci
Writers: Richard Wagner
Language: German
Stars: Thomas Johannes Mayer , Jan-Hendrik Rootering , Andrew Richards , Tómas Tómasson , Anna Larsson , Anna Larsson , Willem van der Heyden , Friedemann Röhlig , Ilse Eerens , Angélique Noldus , Gijs Van der Linden
Runtime: 240 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Parsifal (Belgium)
Plot: Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the end of his life, did Wagner wish to celebrate asceticism, which he himself had never practised? Did he fall upon his knees before the Cross, as claimed by Nietzsche? And what does the secret society of knights based on pure blood signify, desperately waiting for the saviour to regenerate it? What is the true nature of the opposition between the worlds of Klingsor and the Grail? What can Parsifal tell us today? In his artistic will and testament, Wagner condenses his moral idea of the world and returns to the roots of love and religion - to the very heart of art according to him. With the participation of conductor Hartmut Haenchen who is passionated by the score, Italian stage director Romeo Castellucci proposes an original reading of this brilliant work and explores the essence of Wagnerian 'Kunstreligion' in a different light.
IMDB:tt3126506