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Fanes
in the Movies, Theater, Radio and TV
The
story of theater, movies and radio-TV arrangements of the Fanes'
saga lists a number of titles, although I've been unable to retrieve
several significant data for a part of them.
Let's
start by the theater:
-
Emil
Petschnig, Die Verheissene Zeit [The Promised Time],
manuscript, 1928.(see Literature and
Music). His text was used as the libretto
for an opera by the same name, that was first staged at Innsbruck
in 1928. The piece was unsuccessful and was never performed again.
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in 1937, the Italian musician Renzo Massarani
(1898-1975) composed a ballet (or better "a mimic action
in three acts and two intervals"), titled Boè,
inspired to Wolff's
legends (see more details in Music).
- Angel
Morlang, a parishioner, who died in 2005, wrote about
1950 Fanes
da Zacan, a drama that was first performed in the open
in 1951 at La Valle/Wengen/La Val; published by the Istitut Ladin
“Micurà de Rü”, San Martin de Tor, 1978.
- In
2002 the ballet "Dolomytica"
was staged in Bolzano. (see Music);
- A
theatrical reduction of the legend was performed in August, 2003
at Selva di Cadore and other towns of Veneto, by the "Gruppo
Rajeta Teatro" of Mestre.
- In
Fall, 2007 the Teatro
Stabile di Bolzano has performed, with great audience
and success, the drama La leggenda del Regno dei Fanes
[The legend of the Kingdom of Fanes], adapted for the
stage by Art Director Paolo Bonaldi from Brunamaria Dal
Lago Veneri's novel Il Regno dei Fanes (see
here). Among the cast, we can signal Andrea Castelli, Giorgio
Bertan and Nora Fuser.
We
must quote again the radio programme
:
- "Zakan
- wer weiss, wann..." by
the Bayerischer
Rundfunk of Munich,
broadcast in 2003. It
is a programme in German language, during which one can listen
to several Ladinian legends by the voice of Ladinian storytellers
who are still preserving their oral tradition. The
programme has been quite kindly made available to this site
by its Authors, Dr. Andrea Zinnecker and Wolfgang Karreth,
whom I'm warmly thanking again here.
As for television, I can list:
1. A dramatization for the youth, in the early
seventies. Unfortunately I have no recall of it myself. Some time
ago, however, I got in touch with another fan whose mother (!)
reminded the image of a warrior strolling around with a hawk on
his fist (The King of Fanes? Ey de Net?), and the final scene
when Dolasilla (not Lujanta and/or the Queen!) disappeared
into the heart of the mountain aboard a small boat, together with
a marmot. The male protagonist (Ey-de-Net) was Antonello Campodifiori.
My friend Franco Tauceri is advising me that the dramatization's
title was I monti di vetro [The Mountains of
Glass], directed by Sergio Tau. From a short search on the web
we derive that the other main characters were Elizabeth Wolff
e Maurizio Tocchi, and that it was produced in 1972. It seems
that the musical theme told of a "knight/alone and weaponless",
sung somewhat like in Herbert Pagani's style.
2. The Prisma film, ( PRISMA
soc.coop.- Via Brennero - Brennestr. 20/e, 39100 - Bolzano)
staged in 1986 "Fanes", a multivision
about the Fanes' saga, with a contribution by the Unione dei
Ladini della Val Badia (it is unclear if, when and where
it has ever been broadcast);
3. The Italian TV,
Alto-Adige section, produced in 1988 "Il Mistero
dei Fanes [The Mistery of the Fanes]", directed
by Angela Berzuini. I'm unaware of the other data of this work
(provided it is does not coincide with the one listed at the previous
point).
Last but not least,
as far as movies are concerned:
- A
group of young Ladinians, lead by Susy Rottonara, Roland Verra
and Hans-Peter Karbon has staged for Karbon
Videoproduktion the interesting movie "Le
Rëgn de Fanes", directed by Roland Verra.
The movie, played in several Ladinian dialects, is available as
a DVD undertitled in Italian, English and German, and has also
been broadcast by the Italian TV - Alto Adige. Key roles are played
by Susy Rottonara, Tone Palfrader, Cristina Nagler Crazzolara
and Edi Croce. The protagonist and co-author, Susy Rottonara,
has collected on a CD the original musics that she composed (see
Music). The movie music has recently
been conferred a prized international award at the Renderyard
Film Festival. The ceremony (see photo)
has taken place in London in Oct., 2007. In
april, 2008, again,
the "Best International Score" was conferred upon the
same music at the Garden State Film Festival
at Asbury Park (New Jersey, USA) .
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