Meeting Venus

Meeting Venus
Directed by	István Szabó[1]
Produced by	David Puttnam[1][2][3]
Written by	István Szabó Michael Hirst
Starring	Glenn Close Niels Arestrup Marián Labuda Maïté Nahyr Victor Poletti Jay O. Sanders Maria de Medeiros Johanna ter Steege[1]
Music by	Richard Wagner (non-original)[1][4]
Cinematography	Lajos Koltai
Editing by	Jim Clark
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	UK 27 September 1991, France 18 September 1991, USA 15 November 1991[1]
Running time	119 minutes
Country	United Kingdom, United States, Japan[1]
Language	English

Meeting Venus is a 1991 British–American-Japanese film directed by the Hungarian director István Szabó^[2] and starring Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Marián Labuda, Victor Poletti, Jay O. Sanders, Maria de Medeiros and Johanna ter Steege. The movie was filmed in Budapest, Hungary.

Cast

• Glenn Close as Karin Anderson
• Niels Arestrup as Zoltan Szanto
• Marián Labuda as Von Schneider
• Maïté Nahyr as Maria Krawiecki
• Victor Poletti as Stefano Del Sarto
• André Champeau as Etienne Tailleur
• Jay O. Sanders as Stephen Taylor
• Johanna ter Steege as Monique Angelo
• Roberto Pollak as Isaac Partnoi
• François Delaive as Thomas
• Maria de Medeiros as Yvonne
• Etienne Chicot as Toushkau
• Ildikó Bánsági as Jana
• Dorottya Udvaros as Edith

In this movie many of the characters have the cognates ("blood relative") of the surname Tailor from different languages. The profession's denomination, Tailor, is a common surname in many languages: Taylor (English), Schneider (German), Szabó (Hungarian), Sastre (Spanish), Krawiec (Kravitz) (Polish), Portnoy (Russian).^{[citation needed]}

Voice on singing scenes

The version of Tannhäuser that can be heard in the movie is performed by Kiri Te Kanawa as Elisabeth, René Kollo as Tannhäuser, Håkan Hagegård as Wolfram von Eschenbach and Waltraud Meier as Venus with the London Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Marek Janowski.^[1][4] The composer David Bedford provided extra orchestrations and music for the film.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Meeting Venus (1991)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102428/. Retrieved 5 September 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Meeting Venus Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meeting_venus/. Retrieved 5 September 2009. 
3. ^ "Meeting Venus:Review". Roling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947339/review/5947340/meeting_venus. Retrieved 5 September 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Meeting Venus:Original Sountrack:Amazon.ca". http://www.amazon.ca/Meeting-Original-Soundtrack-Richard-Wagner/dp/B000000SD5. Retrieved 5 September 2009. 

External links

• Meeting Venus at the Internet Movie Database