1963 - HERZOG BLAUBARTS BURG - a return to form for Michael Powell

After the disaster that was The Queen's Guards, a career low point for director Michael Powell.  Powell's production designer Hein Heckroth arranged for Powell to collaborate with the opera singer Norman Foster who was producing a Bartok opera called Herzog Blaubarts Burg. 

 Powell's version of this opera shows that he still knew how to pull together a film that could have been an unwatchable experience.  Putting opera on film is a very difficult trick. This is a fairly impressive achievement.  

Powell and Heckroth combined color and abstract sets to create a fascinating mixture of music and visual images.  This short film is well worth a look.

60 minutes.