The Prince of Homburg (film)
Encyclopedia
The Prince of Homburg is a 1997
Italian
drama film
directed by Marco Bellocchio, based on the play Der Prinz von Homburg
by Heinrich von Kleist
. It was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival
.
1997 in film
-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
Italian
Cinema of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Marco Bellocchio, based on the play Der Prinz von Homburg
The Prince of Homburg (play)
The Prince of Homburg is a play by Heinrich von Kleist written in 1809-10, but not performed until 1821, after the author's death. A performance during his lifetime was not possible because Princess Marianne of Prussia , by birth a member of the Hesse-Homburg family, to whom Kleist had given sight...
by Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...
. It was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival
1997 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Isabelle Adjani *Gong Li *Mira Sorvino *Paul Auster *Tim Burton *Luc Bondy *Patrick Dupond *Mike Leigh *Nanni Moretti *Michael Ondaatje -Feature film competition:...
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Cast
- Andrea Di StefanoAndrea Di StefanoAndrea Di Stefano is an Italian actor.Born in Rome, he moved to New York City to study acting at the Actor's Studio. In the U.S. he played in Smile, an independent movie directed by Andrew Hunt....
- Prince of Homburg - Barbora BobulovaBarbora BobulováBarbora Bobuľová is a Slovak actress.Born in Martin, Slovakia, Bobuľová trained at the National Drama Academy in Bratislava before moving to Italy in 1995...
- Natalia - Toni Bertorelli - Elector
- Anita Laurenzi - Electoress
- Fabio Camilli - Hohenzollern
- Gianluigi Fogacci
- Italo Dall'Orto
- Bruno Corazzari - Kottwitz
- Diego Ribon
- Pierfrancesco FavinoPierfrancesco FavinoPierfrancesco Favino is an actor from Rome, Italy. He has appeared in 35 films and television series' since the early 1990s, including: L'ultimo bacio, Le chiavi di casa , La Sconosciuta or Saturno contro . Favino received the David di Donatello award in 2006 for his role in the film Romanzo...
- Sparren - Federico Scribani - Capt. Stranz (as Federico Scribani Rossi)
- Memo Dini
- Marco Piccioni
- Riccardo Diana
- Erika Urbán
- Barbara Chiesa
- Gianluca Petrazzi