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Satyagraha / a ZDF-RM Arts production in association with Channel Four Television, U.K. ; RM Associates ; producer, Achim Freyer ; director, Hugo Käch.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 306
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LIBRA DVD 002 794
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- DeJong, Constance, author.
- Language:
- English
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- Gandhi.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
- Tolstoy, Leo.
- Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.
- Tagore, Rabindranath.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- King, Martin Luther.
- East Indians--South Africa--Politics and government.
- East Indians.
- South Africa.
- Politics and government.
- Civil rights movements--South Africa--History.
- Civil rights movements.
- History.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2001]
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- This visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a political revolutionary tool to fight oppression, connecting his lifework to three historical figures who advanced his philosophy: the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the great Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Contents:
- Act 1. Tolstoy
- Act 2. Tagore
- Act 3. Martin Luther King.
- Participant:
- Leo Goeke, Ralf Harster, Helmut Danninger, Inga Nielsen, Georg Greiwe, Elke Estlinbaum, Wolfgang Probst, Limmo Lappalainen, Karl-Friedrich Durr.
- Credits:
- Libretto by Philip Glass and Constance De Jong ; music, Philip Glass.
- Notes:
- Originally produced in 1983.
- Based on an original scenario by Philip Glass and Constance De Jong.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.
- OCLC:
- 48984057
- Publisher Number:
- 014381924626
- ID9246RADVD Image Entertainment
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