THE MAGIC FLUTE

Details

• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Musical
• Plot: A production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" is presented, this film which blurs the lines of it as a stage production - not only with aspects of the theater stage shown, but also the occasional shot of the audience members watching it, and the performers going through their backstage routines during intermission - and a movie as the set moves out from the confines of the stage. The actual story concerns Tamino, a prince, falling in love with Pamina solely from seeing her photograph, Pamina's mother, the Queen of the Night, vowing that Pamina will be his if he rescues her from Sarastro, a demon who has captured her. On behalf of the Queen, three of her attendants, "ladies", who saved Tamino from a serpent, provide him with a magic flute to entice Pamina, and three child angels, who will act as his guides. The ladies also dispatch the pan-flute playing Papageno, a bird catcher who laments not being married himself, with Tamino, they providing him with magic bells as protection. Tamino will discover that not relayed to him by the Queen and her ladies is as it appears, he and Papageno who will have to go through a trial of enlightenment to reach their desired ends.
• Cast: Joseph Kaiser; Amy Carson; Ben Davis; Silvia Moi; René Pape; Lyubov Petrova; Tom Randle; Liz Smith; Teuta Koço; Louise Callinan; Kim-Marie Woodhouse; William Dutton; Luke Lampard; Jamie Manton; Rodney Clarke; Charne Rochford; Peter Wedd; Keel Watson; Jonathan Broadbent; Paul Dinnen; Mark Hayden; Paul Chequer; Adam Shipley; Christopher Wren; Jimmy Yuill; Adrian Preater; Robert Barton; Ed Marsden; James Thorne; Christopher Logan; Gary Mackay; Brendan Patricks; Iain Stuart Robertson; Benjamin Uttley; Hattie Ladbury; Gemma Gray; Shane Armstrong; Amy Humphreys; Cristina Catalina; Gareth Hancock; James Conlon; Sophie Adams; Charles Aitken; Catherine Alder; Aytunc Akdogu; Gemma Arrowsmith; Christen Asante; Lauren Atkins; Lawrence Broomfield; Florence Bailey; Brian Condon; Carol Capper; Denev Denjo; Naomi Charles; Andrew Dobbins; Karina Cornwell; Thomas Faulkner; Belinda Evans; Allan Frederiks; Briana Gibbins; Chris Grayson; Joanne Heald; Mark Morgan; Rebecca Hunt; Stephen Jeffrey; Margaret Jackson-Roberts; Cheyney Kent; Elenor Kleiner; Paul Knapp; Cindee Lee; Simon Brandon; Rachael Leggett; Menno Kuijper; Sarah-Jane Newson; Adam Linstead; Hope McNamara; Gareth Morris; Joanne Newson; Richard Plumley; Sarah Pearman; Kelyon Rose; Katherine Shirley; James Sherwood; Sarah Strachan; Christopher Stone; Curson Tussaud; Tim Soper; Michelle Whitney; Sebastian Valentine; Alice Wong; Ian Warner; Kamran Bedi; Gerrard Martin; Davide Camorani; Daniel Sharpe; David A. John; Ben Whitson; Darren James; Ben Timothy; Eliot James; Anthony Trahearn; Joseph Leigh; Craig Turbyfield; Craig McDermott; Quang Van; Darren Murphy; Brett Watkiss; Vicki Davids; Mathew Bower; Irina Aggrey; Mathew Graham; Georgina Hopkins; Barry Jung; Samantha Johanneson; Oliver Roll; Emily Piercy; Adam Tucker; Lucy Rose; Ewan Wardrop; Karen von Ross; Daniel Wright; Francisco Bosch; Lasco Atkins; Matthew Bancroft; Stewart Brown; Chloé Bruce; Michael Burhan; James Fiddy; Christopher Fosh; Chris Hembury; Michael Sercerchi; Jon Shannon; Adriano Valente; Kenneth Branagh; Emanuel Schikaneder; Stephen Fry
• Director: Kenneth Branagh
• Runtime: 2:19
• Company: E1 Entertainement
• Media Format: Movie