Tony Palmer's Film of O, Fortuna
by Tony Palmer
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Actor: Clara Huber, Jeanne Bull, Kate Baxter, Kurt Eichhorn, Susan ChilcottDirector: Tony Palmer
Brand: Koch International
Editor: Tony Palmer
Producer: Korbinian Mayer
Producer: Mike Bluett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
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DVD Review: The problem of Orff
Summary: 4 Stars
I have watched "O, Fortuna!" once and, contrary to the DVD product description, there is no interview with Orff himself. Moreover, they mention that he consistently refused interviews with the comment "let them pick over my life when I am dead".
His sins in the Nazi era appear to be primarily of omission. He did nothing to help anybody, nor to hinder the Nazi party and was on their payroll. Compared to him Winifred Wagner was a saint in that she did save lives of artists and their families in the course of preserving Bayreuth. From the accounts on the documentary he was very much an "ivory tower" person: his work was everything. Members of his family say he hated the Nazis. He was far from being a hero and lived with a burden of guilt, but neither was he an active Nazi. Surprisingly, he was of Jewish heritage and managed to hide it from the government. Perhaps that forced him to keep a low profile and not rock the boat.
The film gives a number of short excerpts of his works. I guess I have to agree that as a composer he is not top rank, but "Carmina Burana" will endure. The other works appear occasionally, perhaps more in Germany. I live in Los Angeles and "Die Kluge" was performed recently in Long Beach.
Ultimately, his greatest worth may be as a music educator. A number of instances are shown on the DVD. I found the portion dealing with teaching cerebral palsy kids long and for a layman difficult to see progress. Perhaps Palmer should have shown short clips of sessions over a several week period. At any rate I would skip over this in subsequent viewings.
This is an important DVD in that it is a well balanced overview of a difficult, little understood man in a horrible time. Let the timid be warned that there is incidental full frontal female nudity.
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Description of Tony Palmer's Film of O, Fortuna
The true story of CARMINA BURANA, the ever-popular masterpiece performed in Orff?s original orchestration and sounding is utterly different from what we normally hear. It forms the backbone of Tony Palmer?s explosive film about composer Carl Orff, a man tormented with guilt about his mendacious and tragic behavior during Hitler?s Germany. This film will change forever our understanding of this tormented soul. This documentary features an interview with Carl Orff before he passed away as well as interviews with three of his wives and his daughter.Bestsellers in DVD
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