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Trollflöjten
Directed by	Ingmar Bergman
Produced by	Måns Reuterswärd
Written by	Emanuel Schikaneder Alf Henrikson Ingmar Bergman
Starring	Josef Köstlinger Irma Urrila Håkan Hagegård Ulrik Cold
Music by	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cinematography	Sven Nykvist
Distributed by	Gaumont
Released	January 1, 1975 (Swedish TV premiere)
Running time	135 min.
Language	Swedish
IMDb profile

For the opera by Mozart, see Die Zauberflöte. Image File history File links Derived from public domain images featured at: http://commons. ... Image File history File links Magic_flute_dvd. ... Ingmar Bergman â–¶ (help· info) (pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA in Unicode notation) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ... Emanuel Schikaneder (September 9, 1751, Straubing - September 21, 1812, Vienna), born Johann Joseph Schikaneder, was mostly famous for his collaboration as a librettist with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on popular operas such as Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). ... Opera singer HÃ¥kan HagegÃ¥rd (born November 25, 1945) is a Swedish baritone. ... Mozart drawing by Doris Stock, 1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) is among the most significant and enduringly popular composers of European classical music. ... Sven Nykvist (born 3 December 1922 in Moheda, Kronobergs län, Sweden) is a Swedish cinematographer known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. ... Gaumont Pictures were founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Die Zauberflöte (en: The Magic Flute) is an opera in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. ...

The Magic Flute is the English title for Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte. Various works were made based on it: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ...

It is one of the most frequently performed German language operas, and the libretto has also been translated for performance in numerous other languages. German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ...

Film Versions

• The Magic Flute (sv: Trollflöjten) is Ingmar Bergman's 1975 highly acclaimed film version.

Production Credits: Director and Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman; Photography: Sven Nykvist; Sound: Helmut Muhle; Musical Director and Conductor: Eric Ericson with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Art Direction: Henny Noremark; Editing: Siv Lundgren; Costumes: Karin Erskine. SV, Sv or sv may stand for: El Salvador (ISO country code, SV) the IATA code for Saudi Arabian Airlines Der Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde, the German Shepherd Dog Club of Germany Sierra Vista, a small city in the South-Eastern corner of Arizona Sievert (Sv), SI derived... Ingmar Bergman ▶ (help· info) (pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA in Unicode notation) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ... This article is about motion pictures. ...

Cast (in order of appearance): Josef Köstlinger (Tamino); Britt-Marie Aruhn; Birgitta Smiding; Kirsten Vaupel (Three Ladies); Håkan Hagegård (Papageno); Birgit Nordin (Queen of the Night); Irma Urrila (Pamina); Ragnar Ulfung (Monostatos); Ulrik Cold (Sarastro); and Elisabeth Erikson (Papagena). Bergman himself appears briefly in audience shots, as does Sven Nykvist, the cinematographer. Opera singer HÃ¥kan HagegÃ¥rd (born November 25, 1945) is a Swedish baritone. ...

The sound was not actually recorded in synch with the photography. The singers pre-recorded their parts and then lip-synced to the music which was played back as they performed. Lip sync (short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching lip movements with voice. ...

Bergman daringly made a major change in the plot: Sarastro is Pamina's father, and has a good claim, morally and legally, to her custody, while The Three Boys introduce themselves, instead of being introduced by the Queen's Three Ladies. Thus, in Bergman's version it is obvious from the first that the Three Boys are not in the Queen's service. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

According to film historian Peter Cowie’s notes for the DVD release of the film, Bergman wanted to recreate as closely as possible the original 1791 production in the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna. He had hoped that the film could be shot in the historic Drottningholm Palace Theatre and introductory exterior shots in the film set the scene at there. However, “the scenery was considered too fragile to accommodate a film crew. So the stage – complete with wings, curtains, and wind machines – was painstakingly copied and erected in the studios of the Swedish Film Institute”. Variety is a daily magazine for the entertainment industry. ... It has been suggested that Dual layer recording be merged into this article or section. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Croatian and Serbian: Beč Romanian: Viena, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya;) Vienna is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... The Drottningholm Palace Theatre, or Drottningholms Slottsteater, is an opera house located at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

As the overture begins, a close-up shot of a young girl's face fills the screen. Gradually this gives way to close-ups of a multitude of faces of the audience - faces of all races, ages, classes, and the swift editing reflects the rhythms of the music. But also, the young girl (maybe 12 years old?) from the overture re-appears frequently, cut into the action on stage to provide reaction to those events. Her facial expressions often express the mood of the music as it moves from lighter to darker. Clearly, Bergman is involving his audience in the action and never wants us to forget that there is an audience present.

So, throughout the film, we are never far from the illusion of being in the theatre, of being part of a theatrical event, and yet Bergman strives to make the opera into a distinctly cinematic event rather than just a record of a stage performance.

Shot originally for Swedish television, there is an emphasis on close-ups of the singers, but the mechanics of cinema also allow for manipulations of time and space. For example, prior to Papageno’s entry, there is a cut to the singer backstage in his dressing room. Suddenly, to be ready for his cue, he jumps up and rushes to the wings where he plays the appropriate chord on his pipe, is then helped into his birdcage by a stagehand, and finally makes the appropriate entrance to find Tamino. Later, as Tamino looks at the locket containing Pamina’s picture, she comes alive inside the locket with the ominous face of Monastatos glimpsed over her shoulder, foreshadowing a possible problem. Equally cinematic are the obvious “real” scenes taking place in the snow, which could not be realistically created on stage.

As scenes change, so the mechanics of the theatre reveal themselves; day turns to night as the Queen of the Night arrives and, from the point of view of an audience member, we witness the shifting backcloths moving to create the new scene. Similarly, when Papagena and Papageno joyously discover each other in a winter landscape, the chiming of the magic bells theatrically turns the scenery from Winter into Spring while the two characters remove portions of each other’s winter garments.

In contrast, throughout the actual performance and during the intermission, we get backstage views of the theatre. Tamino plays his flute while, through the wings, we catch sight of Papagena and Pamina for, at this stage in the plot, they have not yet met. The opposite happens when Pamina and Papageno are on stage and, this time, it is Tamino who is seen sitting on a ladder in the wings. During the intermission, Sarastro’s men gather on the stage chatting. Sarastro himself sits reading the score of ‘’Parsifal’’ while the camera pans to one of Monastatos’ henchmen reading a comic book. Pamina and Tamino play chess in the dressing room. The Queen of the Night smokes a cigarette. Finally, as the curtain is about to rise for Act 2, a character peers through a low peephole in the curtain and he is joined by Sarastro who peeps through a higher one. Throughout, we are constantly reminded of the mechanics of the “show” we are witnessing. Panning, a horizontal motion in an image display or capture. ...

This all summed up in the final minute of the film: each part of the action seamlessly dissolves into the other, as the camera pulls back and back, first to witness Pamina and Tamino in an embrace that, in turn, gives way to a theatrical backdrop falling into place. Then the backward moving camera (taking us further and further from the action on stage) shows us Papagena and Papageno also kissing. The couple is circled by a group of small children (the little Papagenas and Papagenos lyrically imagined a few minutes before?) until the camera pulls out to reveal the proscenium arch and a dissolve takes us to the final drop of the curtain and the rise of the audience’s applause. In film editing, a dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another. ...

It was released as a TV-production first shown on Swedish television, followed by the film version released in 1975. 135 mins. See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Other adaptations

Film

• The Magic Flute: In November 2005, it was announced that a new film version, set during World War I, was to be made by [1] the director Kenneth Branagh, with a libretto by Stephen Fry.

Combatants Allies: • Serbia, • Russia, • France, • Romania, • Belgium, • British Empire and Dominions, • United States, • Italy, • ...and others Central Powers: • Germany, • Austria-Hungary, • Ottoman Empire, • Bulgaria Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian dead: 3 million Total: 8 million Full list Military dead: 3 million Civilian dead: 3 million Total: 6 million Full... Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile Emmy Award-winning Irish born British actor and film director. ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... Stephen Fry on the cover of his autobiography (US Edition) Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and director. ...

Book

• The Magic Flute: children's book published by John Updike in 1962.

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External links

• The Magic Flute at The Internet Movie Database
• Trollflöjten at The Internet Movie Database
• Peter Cowie essay at criterionco.com