Satyagraha / a ZDF-RM Arts production in association with Channel Four Television, U.K. ; RM Associates.

Format Video (DVD)
Publication InfoChatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [©2001]
Description1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorKäch, Hugo.
Other author/creatorFreyer, Achim, 1934-
Other author/creatorGlass, Philip.
Other author/creatorDeJong, Constance.
Other author/creatorGoeke, Leo.
Other author/creatorHarster, Ralf.
Other author/creatorDanninger, Helmut.
Other author/creatorNielsen, Inga, 1946-2008.
Other author/creatorGreiwe, Georg.
Other author/creatorReiner Moritz Associates.
Other author/creatorZweites Deutsches Fernsehen.
Other author/creatorChannel Four (Great Britain)
Other author/creatorRM Arts (Firm)
Other author/creatorImage Entertainment (Firm)
Contents Act 1. Tolstoy -- Act 2. Tagore -- Act 3. Martin Luther King.
Abstract This visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a political revolutionary tool to fight oppression, connecting his lifework to three historical figures who advanced his philosophy : the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the great Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
General noteOriginally produced in 1983 by ZDF/RM Arts.
General noteBased on an original scenario by Philip Glass and Constance De Jong.
CreditsDirector, Hugo Käch ; producer, Achim Freyer ; music, Philip Glass ; libretto by Philip Glass and Constance De Jong.
Performer Cast : Leo Goeke, Ralf Harster, Helmut Danninger, Inga Nielsen, Georg Greiwe, Elke Estlinbaum, Wolfgang Probst, Kimmo Lappalainen, Karl-Friedrich Durr.
Technical detailsDVD.
LanguageIn Sanskrit with English subtitles.
UPC 014381924626
Publisher numberID9246RADVD Image Entertainment

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