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Parsifal

https://youtu.be/WLw-QIbCDkg parsifal 1985 . Throughout the 70s and into the early 80s, a new wave of German filmmakers brought new audiences to the art houses in towns like New York and San Francisco. Top sensation among them was Hans-Jurgen Syberberg. He highlighted the historical issues haunting the postwar Germany in films like Our Hitler,  Ludwig The Virgin King,  and Confessions Of Winifried Wagner. In Parsifal of 1982, he ignited on screen an exciting clash between the  two powerful art forms. The motion picture and the Opera. The choice between the sentimental, heart wrending pleas of Wagner's music,  and the vivid, beautiful displays of magical transformations that promisses much visual pleasure. I wonder what Wagner himself would have done to enhance his "TOAL WORK OF ART" with the visual magic that are possible now. Enjoy~   Parsifal   Bayreuth                    All C...