Dietlinde Turban Movies
- 1989
Elderly female aristocrats gather at an ancient castle to live in grand style and escape the chaos of World War II. Expecting the Russians to arrive any moment, they are instead visited by a group of Nazis who consider making a final stand against the enemy at the castle. One wealthy dowager changes from sable to a feather boa when she is informed the next group of soldiers are Americans and not Russians. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Camilla Horn, Dietlinde Turban, (more)
The last days in the life of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his family are told from the point of view of his ill-fated son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano (Anthony Hopkins) in this crammed, two-hour historical biography. Originally filmed as a four-part miniseries, the two-hour reduction leaves a very speeded-up view of the time between the Allied landing in Italy and Mussolini's death. As events worsen for the dictator (shown shuffling around in slippers at home like a domesticated pet) he begins to lose his support, including that of his son-in-law Galeazzo. After the German army frees him from a brief detention by Partisan forces, the dictator orders Galeazzo's execution. Italy has obviously lost the war, but Mussolini seems to be living in his own small world. Susan Sarandon plays Mussolini's daughter and Galeazzo's wife, Bob Hoskins is the dictator, and Barbara De Rossi is Mussolini's doomed mistress, Claretta.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon, (more)
- 1978
In this autobiographical film, a young man and his family have fled East Germany in the early 1950s for the increased opportunities they perceive to exist in West Germany. Part of a huge influx of refugees (up to 20,000 per day), they are given quarters, along with many other refugees, in a mansion formerly occupied by wealthy Jews before the war. A diverse lot, the one thing they all have in common is how completely unprepared they are for life in the West. After their high expectations are shown to be unrealistic, some of the new residents return to the East, and everyone (including the boy) experiences some nostalgia for what they have lost. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dietlinde Turban
- 1978
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first big-name composer of operas in the middle of the Baroque era of classical music. This film of his version of the story of Orpheus and the underworld was made by the famed opera director and set-designer, Jean-Pierre Ponelle, with soloists and choir from the Zurich Opera House of Switzerland. In a step which was highly unusual at the time, the musicians and singers attempted to use authentically Baroque period instrumentation, instruments and vocal techniques under the musical direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The set design and costuming also reflect the visually stunning excesses of the Baroque period. Among director Ponelle's other films are similarly careful productions of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Trudeliese Schmidt, Dietlinde Turban, (more)
