Movie
Meeting Venus
Drama film with a runtime of 119 minutes, released in 1991. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Admidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love. Filmed in Budapest, Meeting Venus was far from a box-office hit thanks in great part to an inadequate advertising campaign; hopefully it will gain the wide audience it deserves on videocassette. (PS: Glenn Close's singing is dubbed by real-life opera luminary Kiri Te Kanawa. We tell you this because the lyp-synching is done so well that you might actually believe that Close is performing those arias herself).
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Cast
- Glenn Close
- Niels Arestrup
- Marián Labuda
- Maïté Nahyr
- Victor Poletti
- Johara Racz
- Rita Scholl
- Michael Kroecher
- André Chaumeau
- Jay O. Sanders
- Maria de Medeiros
- Dieter Laser
- Johanna ter Steege
- Roberto Pollak
- Francoise Delaive
- Moscu Alkalay
- Étienne Chicot
- Ildikó Bánsági
- Dorottya Udvaros
- Mosko Alkalai
- Macha Meril
- Erland Josephson
- Maria Becker
- François Delaive
- Eva Ebner
- Sandor Szabo
- András Márton
- Irén Bordán
- Eszter Kárász
- Erika Toth
- Andras Vamosi
- Zsuzsa Manyai
- Balazs Hantos
- Jozsef Csor
- Lili Kepes
- Gyorgy Fenyves
- Pal Schiffer
- Fruzsina Pregitzer
- Monteith Douglas
- Karoly Ujlaky
- Zsuzsa Fazekas
- Brigitte Sy
- Jeno Pataky
- Gyorgyi Tarjan
- Istvan Komlos
- Manfred Andrae
- Buda Gulyas
- Sandor Kecskes
- Ferenc Gerdesits
- Laszlo Barany Paal
- Andras Kepes
- Sandor Szabo Sr.
- Sándor Simó
- Ferenc Harangozo
- Istvan Szilagyi
- Jozsef Fonyo
- Ivan Verebely
- Pierre Remund
- Jean Guerbay
- Sandor Altemann
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- René Kollo
- Håkan Hagegård
- Waltraud Meier
- Renate Springler
- Matthia Holle
- Kim Begley
- Robin Macann
- Roderick Earle
- Uberto Pasolini
- Michael Hirst
- Gabriella Prekop
- Attila Kovacs
- Lóránd Jávor
- Jean-Luc Russier
- Jim Clark
- Patsy Pollock
- István Szabó
- Catherine Leterrier
- Lajos Koltai
