Owen Wingrave
movie
Released January 01, 2001
Overview
Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera based on a short story by Henry James. Performers featured include Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge and Josephine Barstow. The conductor is Kent Nagano. As pertinent now as then, OWEN WINGRAVE was composed by Benjamin Britten at the height of the Vietnam War. The opera poses the question: Is pacifism an act of cowardice? Or rather a desire to escape from the spiral of war and create world peace? To what extent do we determine our own futures? Should we let past events inform the decisions we make? Britten’s characters grapple with timeless issues in this gripping psychodrama.
Cast
Crew
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Henry Harris
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Art Direction
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Miranda Melville
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Production Design
Benjamin Britten
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Original Music Composer
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Janet Tovey
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Cinematography
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Doreen Watkinson
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Costume Design
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Anne Beresford
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Producer
Henry James
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Novel
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Myfanwy Piper
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Writer
Kent Nagano
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Conductor
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Margaret Williams
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Director