Toldi,
october 6. friday, 22.15, Toldi,
october 8. sunday, 22.00,
USA
1999
Dir, scr: Julie Taymor
Phot: Luciano Tovoli
Editor: Francoise Bonnot
Music: Elliot Goldenthal
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan
Cumming, Harry Lennix, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Format: 35 mm
Colour
162 mins
Julie Taymor first staged her version of
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus in 1995 to New York theater audiences who were mesmerized
by her surreal and time-bending fusion of costumes and settings from many eras. This comic
tragedy begins with the great Roman general, Titus Andronicus returning home victorious
after a long and brutal war with the Goths. His first act is to ritually sacrifice the
eldest son of the Goth Queen, Tamora, his prisoner. But when the corrupt Saturnius is made
emperor and surprisingly makes Tamora his queen, a new battel ensuse as Tamora, and then
Titus, enact a tale of double revenge.
