Film

The Tarnished Angels

Retrospettiva: Douglas Sirk

USA  ·  1957  ·  35 mm  ·  Black and White  ·  91'  ·  o.v. English

Screening

Thursday 4 | 8 | 2022, 18:00  ·  GranRex


Screening

Friday 12 | 8 | 2022, 17:30  ·  GranRex

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The lost and doomed marginals of this ’tragic rondo’ are among Sirk’s greatest characters: fairground aviators adrift in the years of the Great Depression. An adaptation from Faulkner, which Sirk had been thinking about since the 1930s: “Perhaps, after all, it is my best film”. (D. Sirk)

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Director

Douglas Sirk

Cast

Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton

Producer

Albert Zugsmith

Cinematography

Irving Glassberg

Editing

Russell F. Schoengarth

Music

Frank Skinner, Joseph Gershenson

Screenplay

George Zuckerman

Based on

the novel "Pylon" by William Faulkner

Production

Universal International
www.universalstudios.com

International sales

Park Circus
info@parkcircus.com
www.parkcircus.com

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Harvard Film Archive
harvardfilmarchive.org/


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