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The Oberwald Mystery (1980)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An oddly misjudged attempt by the master of Italian alienation to film Jean Cocteau's melodramatic play The Eagle Has Two Heads, previously filmed by Cocteau himself (L'Aigle à Deux Têtes, 1948). Ten years after the assassination of her husband Prince Ferdinand, the lonely internal exile of the queen (Vitti) of a middle European country is broken when she gives refuge to a fugitive anarchist poet. Shot on video and transferred to film, this features muddy visuals and suffers badly from the predictable mismatch of Cocteau's flamboyant aestheticism and Antonioni's emotionally distanced formalism.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Producer: Sergio Benvenuti, Alessandro von Normann, Giancarlo Bernardoni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Franco Branciaroli, Luigi Diberti, Elisabetta Pozzi, Amad Saha Alan, Paolo Bonacelli, Silvano Tranquilli full cast
Duration: 129 mins
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