The Pavilion of Peonies
Synopsis
A young woman from affluent society is seduced by a young man she saw in a dream, one afternoon in springtime. She is now a prisoner of that impossible love, and she dies of melancholia. But love is stronger than death and the judge of hell takes pity of the young woman, who manages to come back to life and to her lover. The opera THE PAVILION OF PEONIES was composed in 1598 by the poet Tang Xianzu (1550-1617), one of the greatest drama writers of the Ming period. The kun qu is the form of Chinese opera that is the most classical and was greatly appreciated by the intellectuals of that time because of its refined musicality, literature and gesture.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producers : La Sept Cinéma, Binome
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : N.T. Binh
- Director of photography : Hélène Louvart
- Assistant director : Ursula Gauthier
- Editor : Alain Mazars
- Sound Recordist : Yves Laisné
- Voice : Jean-Noël Sissia
- Assistant Operator : Marianne Lamour
- Camera operators : Hélène Louvart, Alain Mazars
- Sound Editor : Minh Tâm Nguyen
- Sound mixer : Marie Massiani
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1988
- Runtime : 59 min
- Color type : Color
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