Capriccio (Blu-ray) Video Store Rufus Swart as Paul

Rufus Swart as Paul

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Filmed back to back with writer/director Sergio Garrone's equally Gothic Italian/Turkish thriller THE HAND THAT FEEDS THE DEAD

raid-the-peplum-props ingenuity and jaw-dropping depictions of ancient Roman depravity: When the deranged emperor (Vladimir Brajovic of THE STORY OF O) falls for an insatiable gladiatrix (Betty Roland of Mattei's CALIGULA REINCARNATED AS NERO)

In what fans consider his last great film

Capriccio (Blu-ray) Video Store Rufus Swart as PaulA touching performance by excellent singers including Camilla Nylund, Christoph Pohl, Daniel Behle and Nikolay Borchev Subtitled A Conversation Piece with Music, Richard Strauss's Capriccio, which premiered in Munich in 1942, was the climax of the composer's stage work, a farewell to opera and a confirmation of his (ambivalent) insistence on the autonomy of art at a time of total war. In a rococo chateau near Paris, the poet Olivier, the composer