Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Parsifal interprets the opera by mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy. Based on one of King Arthur’s medieval romances, it recounts how a “wild child” unwittingly invades the sacred precincts of the Holy Grail.
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Parsifal interprets the opera by mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy. Based on one of King Arthur’s medieval romances, it recounts how a “wild child” unwittingly invades the sacred precincts of the Holy Grail.