Death of a Salesman
We're celebrating 75 years of the Théâtre du Rideau Vert, the oldest professional French-language theater still operating in Quebec. Each film in this cycle is based on a play that played at the Rideau Vert and marked a key moment in its history. The Children's Hour is adapted from Lilian Hellman's Innocentes, the first play presented on its stages; James Goldman's The Lion in Winter was performed under the artistic direction of Yvette Brind'Amour, co-founder of the theater; Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady were staged during the time of current Artistic Director Denise Filiatrault, who also starred in André Brassard's Il était une fois dans l'Est, co-written by playwright and author of Les Belles sœurs, Michel Tremblay.
Based on Arthur Miller's play of the same name, Death of a Salesman follows the downward spiral of Willy Loman, an aging salesman on the verge of losing his job. He can no longer pay his bills and his sons disrespect him. As Willy experiences frustration and depression, his wife does everything in her power to help him.
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff is a German film director. He is one of the major figures of the new German cinema of the 1960s-1970s, and a proud defender of European auteur cinema. His first notable feature was Der junge Törless (1966), based on the novel by Robert Musil. In this film, he showed his skill in fluid form, his deep psychological study and his sense of storytelling. The film won the Prix de la Critique Internationale at the 20th Cannes Film Festival. However, it was with Le Tambour (1979) that he achieved international success. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Günter Grass, this film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. This makes Schlöndorff one of the most acclaimed German filmmakers of his generation.
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