Meeting Venus

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Meeting Venus
Directed by István Szabó[1]
Produced by David Puttnam[1][2][3]
Written by István Szabó
Michael Hirst
Starring Glenn Close
Niels Arestrup
Marián Labuda
Maïté Nahyr
Victor Poletti
Jay O. Sanders
Maria de Medeiros
Johanna ter Steege[1]
Music by Richard Wagner (non-original)[1][4]
Cinematography Lajos Koltai
Editing by Jim Clark
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) UK 27 September 1991, France 18 September 1991, USA 15 November 1991[1]
Running time 119 minutes
Country United Kingdom, United States, Japan[1]
Language English

Meeting Venus is a 1991 British–American-Japanese film directed by the Hungarian director István Szabó[2] and starring Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Marián Labuda, Victor Poletti, Jay O. Sanders, Maria de Medeiros and Johanna ter Steege. The movie was filmed in Budapest, Hungary.

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[edit] Cast

In this movie many of the characters have the cognates ("blood relative") of the surname Tailor from different languages. The profession's denomination, Tailor, is a common surname in many languages: Taylor (English), Schneider (German), Szabó (Hungarian), Sastre (Spanish), Krawiec (Kravitz) (Polish), Portnoy (Russian).[citation needed]

[edit] Voice on singing scenes

The version of Tannhäuser that can be heard in the movie is performed by Kiri Te Kanawa as Elisabeth, René Kollo as Tannhäuser, Håkan Hagegård as Wolfram von Eschenbach and Waltraud Meier as Venus with the London Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Marek Janowski.[1][4] The composer David Bedford provided extra orchestrations and music for the film.[4]

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