Moses und Aron (lm)

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Moses und Aron, known in English as Moses and Aaron,

is a 1973 lm by the French lmmaking duo of JeanMarie Straub and Danile Huillet based on the unnished
opera of the same title by Arnold Schoenberg. During its
1975 run at US festivals, it was also known as Aaron and
Moses, and was frequently reviewed as such.

Moses und Aron at the Internet Movie Database

It is one of three lms based on Schoenberg works

Straub and Huillet directed, the other two being Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene, a short lm made
directly before Moses und Aron, and, over two decades
later, an adaptation of the one-act comic opera Von heute
auf morgen. The lm retains the unnished nature of the
original opera, with the third act consisting of a single shot
(with no music) as Moses delivers a monologue based on
Schoenbergs notes.
The lm was shot on location in Italy and Egypt. It utilized the same team of cinematographers as Straub and
Huillets Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach. The soundtrack and cast of the lm is the same as the 1974 recording conducted by Michael Gielen (Philips 6700 084).
The original German version of the lm was dedicated to
Holger Meins, the former cinematography student who
joined a West German terrorist group in the early 1970s
and died on hunger strike in prison. This dedication was
censored by German broadcasters for the lms rst transmission in 1975.
The lm was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but
was not entered into the main competition.[1]

References

[1] Festival de Cannes: Moses und Aron.

cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-04.

festival-

Notes
Shawn, Allen, Holy Ghosts: Schoenbergs Moses
und Aron meets Straub and Huillet, Film Comment, journal of the Film Society of Lincoln Center,
November/December 2008.
Woods, Gregory.
A Work Journal of the
Straub/Huillet Film Moses and Aaron by Gregory
Woods. Enthusiasm 1 (1975):32-54. With Notes
by Danile Huillet.
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