War requiem [videorecording] / Anglo International Films Limited for the BBC in associaton with Liberty Film Sales ; produced by Don Boyd ; written and directed by Derek Jarman ; music composed and conducted by Benjamin Britten.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Mystic Fire Video,
Copyright Date:
1988
Description:
1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988. Laurence Olivier, Tilda Swinton, Owen Teale, Nathaniel Parker, Sean Bean.
Summary:
The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I and documentary footage from subsequent conflicts.
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