| Parsifal | |
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| Directed by | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg |
| Written by | Richard Wagner |
| Produced by | Annie Nap-Oleon |
| Starring | Armin Jordan |
| Cinematography | Igor Luther |
| Edited by | Jutta Brandstaedter Marianne Fehrenberg |
| Distributed by | Zoetrope Studios[1] |
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Running time | 255 minutes |
| Countries | West Germany France[2] |
| Language | German |
Parsifal is a 1982 West German-French opera film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, based on the opera of the same name by Richard Wagner. It was shown out of competition at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
The soundtrack is a complete performance of the opera, but the imagery used is a melange including medieval costume, puppetry, Nazi relics and a giant death mask of Wagner. The Grail itself is represented by Wagner's Bayreuth Theatre, and Parsifal's key transformation is portrayed with a change of actor to an androgynous but deliberately female-suggesting form in order to achieve a union of male and female at the conclusion of Act II.
- ^ "American Zoetrope Filmography". zoetrope.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Parsifal". filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Parsifal". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 13 June 2009.