Release Date | 1968-01-01 |
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Runtime | 136 minutes |
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Stars | Edith Mathis, Donald Grobe, Loren Driscoll, Barry McDaniel, Otto Graf |
Directors | Ernst Wild, Christoph von Dohnányi, Hans Werner Henze, Ingeborg Bachmann |
A 1968 production of Hans-Werner Henze's comic opera filmed at Berlin's Deutsche Oper. With the plot centering around how a whole town is deceived into taking a dressed monkey as a young lord, the work features performances from, among others, Edith Mathis, Donald Grobe and Barry McDaniel. Christoph von Dohnányi conducts.