E la nave va (Fellinis Schiff der Träume)

E la nave va (Fellini's Ship of Dreams) | Italy 1983 | Dir: Federico Fellini | Scr: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra | Cin: Giuseppe Rotunno | Mus: Gianfranco Plenizio | Cast: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Janet Suzman, Vottorio Poletti, Peter Cellier, Pina Bausch | 132 min | OmeU | Summer 1914: Aboard a luxury steamer with illustrious guests on board – among them a Prussian grand duke and a group of opera singers – the ashes of a deceased opera diva are being transported, to be scattered near the island of Erimo. On deck, intrigues are spun until a group of shipwrecked Serbs appears, throwing the refined society into turmoil. A catastrophe follows. A narrator, the journalist Orlando, guides viewers through the film with charm and irony. Fellini chose the world of opera as the artistic backdrop of his film for the first time.