Release Details

Title: U-Carmen/Messiah
Release Date: 08/14/2007
Label/Distributor: Koch Lorber
Retail Price: $44.98
Genre: Art House & International Cast: U-Carmen, Messiah
DVD Video Options: NTSC
UPC Code: 741952313496
U-CARMEN
Both brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company, Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen . Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool halls, bars, courtyards and barracks U-Carmen tells the story of a cigarette factory-worker, Carmen, (Malefane) and her doomed love affair with a police sergeant.

MESSIAH
Photographer-filmmaker William Klein takes on Handel's Messiah and has created a compelling and musically-rich film that mixes the sacred with the profane. Performed in its entirety, the oratorio provides a narrative of Christ's nativity, passion and resurrection juxtaposed against images of man's atrocity against man.