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Bookmark this pageThe Prince of Homburg (1996)
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A staid, uninvolving adaptation of Kleist's story about a high-born cavalry general (Di Stefano) who faces execution after disobeying orders and leading a charge that results in victory. As the film proceeds to examine his crisis of faith, it confronts questions of honour, courage, heroism and responsibility with clarity but little dramatic force. It's a slow, elegant, lifeless costume drama, and its stylistic conservatism only adds to its aura of redundancy.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Producer: Piergiorgio Bellocchio
Cast: Andrea Di Stefano, Barbora Bobulova, Toni Bertorelli, Anita Laurenzi full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 89 mins
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