E la nave va (Fellinis Schiff der Träume)

E la nave va (Fellini's Ship of Dreams) | Italy 1983 | Dir: Federico Fellini | Script: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra | Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno | Music: Gianfranco Plenizio | Cast: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Janet Suzman, Vottorio Poletti, Peter Cellier, Pina Bausch | 132 min | Original version with German subtitles | Summer 1914: Aboard a luxury steamer with distinguished guests, including 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 and throws the refined company 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.