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Despair / New Line Cinema ; Geria Film GMBH presents a Rainer Werner Fassbinder film ; produced by Bavaria Studios in association with La Société française de production cinématographique ; directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; executive producers Edward R. Pressman, Lutz Hengst ; producer, Peter Märthesheimer ; dramatised for the screen by Tom Stoppard.
LIBRA VHS PG3476.N3 O82 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Film adaptations.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Also released in German with title: Reise ins Licht
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1983]
- Language Note:
- English language dialogue.
- System Details:
- VHS; NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- A film based on Nabokov's novel about a schizophrenic businessman who understands the shadow falling over Germany in the early 1930's and attempts to use that knowledge to feather his own nest.
- Participant:
- Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus; editor, Juliane Lorenz, Franz Walsch; music by Peer Raben.
- Notes:
- Based on Otchai͡anīe / Vladimir Nabokov.
- Videocassette release of the motion picture produced in 1978.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- OCLC:
- 18770060
- Publisher Number:
- 28007 Warner Home Video
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