ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL - DVD-ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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• Release Year: 1979
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Plot: Made in 1978 for Italian television, Orchestra Rehearsal is possibly Fellini’s most satirical and overtly political film. An allegorical pseudo-documentary, the film depicts an Italian television crew’s visit to a dilapidated auditorium (a converted 13th-century church) to meet an orchestra assembling to rehearse under the instruction of a tyrannical conductor. The TV crew interviews the various musicians who each speak lovingly about their chosen instruments. However, as petty squabbles break out amid the different factions of the ensemble, and the conductor berates his musicians, the meeting descends into anarchy and vandalism. A destructive crescendo ensues before the musicians regroup and play together once more in perfect harmony.; ; Abounding with its director’s trademark rich imagery and expressive style, Orchestra Rehearsal marks the last collaboration between Fellini and the legendary composer Nino Rota (due to the latter’s death in 1979) who provides one of his most beautiful themes in the film’s conclusion.
• Cast: Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi, Ronaldo Bonacchi, Nando Villella, Franco Javarone, David Maunsell, Francesco Aluigi, Andrew Lord Miller, Sibyl Mostert, Franco Mazzieri, Daniele Pagani, Luigi Uzzo, Cesare Martignoni, Umberto Zuanelli, Filippo Trincia, Claudio Ciocca, Angelica Hansen, Heinz Kreuger, Paolo Fiorino, Franco Trevisi, Adelaide Aste, Pierluigi Calderoni, Rolando De Santis, Giorgio Iovine, Rodolfo Maltese, Federico Fellini, Brunello Rondi
• Director: Federico Fellini
• Runtime: 1:12
• Company: Arrow Academy, Arrow Films, Daimo Cinematografica SPA, Albatross Produktion GmBH, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
• Media Format: Movie