La Bohème (2009 film)

La Bohème
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Written by	Giuseppe Giacosa Luigi Illica
Produced by	André Singer
Starring	Peter Auty Mary Plazas
Cinematography	Richard Blanshard
Edited by	Joe Bini
Music by	Giacomo Puccini
Distributed by	Sky Arts
Release date	September 5, 2009 (2009-09-05) (Venice)
Running time	4 1/2 minutes
Language	Italian

La Bohème is a 2009 short film directed by Werner Herzog. The four-minute film features images of life in Ethiopia^[1] set to the duet "O soave fanciulla" from Puccini's opera La bohème, sung by Peter Auty and Mary Plazas.^[2] It was part of a series of short films commissioned by Sky Arts and English National Opera.^[3]^[4]

Plot

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Cast

Peter Auty as Rodolfo (voice)
Mary Plazas as Mimi (voice)

References

^ Rupert Christiansen (2009-02-06). "Werner Herzog takes opera into a whole new aria". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
^ "Werner Herzog: 'My films are certainly not art'". The Independent. London. 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
^ "Opera Shorts". Sky Arts. Archived from the original on 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
^ David Ng. "Werner Herzog takes La bohème to Ethiopia in short film". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

External links

La Bohème at IMDb

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Filmography Bibliography
Feature films	Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2006) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015) Salt and Fire (2016) Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1981) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012) Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Into the Inferno (2016) Meeting Gorbachev (2018) Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
Shorts	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1968) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)
Other	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
Books	Of Walking in Ice (1978) Conquest of the Useless (2004) The Twilight World (2021) Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2022)
Related	Lena Herzog (wife) Lucki Stipetić (brother) Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) Burden of Dreams (1982) Location Africa (1987) Plastic Bag (2009)
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