Salome

Release Date: 1971-06-11

Overview: Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart, Bellini, and Donizetti. Elfi Mikesch, the cinematographer of Schroeter’s later films, designed the film’s sumptuous costumes. A contemporary critic for Le Monde wrote admiringly of Schroeter’s depiction of "the deadly struggle between dark Christian morality and luminous paganism.“

Rating: 2 / 10

Cast

Mascha Rabben

as Salome

Magdalena Montezuma

as Herodes

Ellen Umlauf

as Herodias

Thomas von Keyserling

as Jochanaan

René Schoenenberger

as Narraboth