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| artemidora Super Polyglot Newbie Spain Joined 4994 days ago 27 posts - 39 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Catalan, Hindi, Russian, Swedish, Danish Studies: Greek, Japanese, Welsh, Serbo-Croatian, Swahili, Persian, Ancient Egyptian, Romansh, Tatar, Sanskrit, Lithuanian, Kazakh, Basque, Hawaiian, Arabic (classical), Finnish, Czech, Turkish, Indonesian | Message 1 of 4 27 March 2011 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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i love these movies, where they speak in quite a number of languages:
-"Caballé. Más allá de la música". "Caballé. Beyond music" by Alberto Sabaté. 98 min. documentary about opera singer monserrat caballé. Spanish, catalan, french, English, German, Italian and russian. many musicians from many countries speak about her. the film is wonderful. -"Jordi Savall. En busca del sonido perfecto". by didier baussy-oulianoff. it's a documentary of about an hour that is included on the extra DVD in the second remastered edition of the french film "Tous les matins du monde"(by alain corneau). Master Savall is a polyglot viola player and expert in ancient and baroque music. in this documentary he speaks in french, catalan, English, German, Italian and Spanish. -Rolando Villazón. "Opera recital" it's an extra dvd that comes along with this opera recital cd. about half an hour long. he speaks in Spanish, German, French, English, Italian and makes his best to sing in russian, what is very funny to watch. -"In weiter ferne, so nah..." by Wim Wenders. a feature film. What was its name in English? so far and yet so close?... they speak German, french, English, russian and Italiano! mammma mia! la pizzeria dell'angelo!. can you add some other polyglot movies to the list? was there already a similar forum thread from the past? many opera lovers must be polyglots, surely there are many Edited by artemidora on 30 March 2011 at 2:53am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 2 of 4 28 March 2011 at 6:09am | IP Logged | ||
I believe "In weiter Ferne, so nah!" was marketed in English-speaking countries as "Faraway, So Close!", as a sequel to "Der Himmel über Berlin" No real list of artistic polyglot movies would be complete without at least a footnote reference to "All the Queen's Men" in which a cross-dressing Matt Leblanc gets parachuted (together with Eddie Izzard and a fellow who speaks 27 languages) into war- time Germany as an OSS officer looking for the German encoding machine Enigma, and instead gets covered in pooh (both literally and liberally). The dialogue is mostly in English, but has large dollops of German, and at least a sentence or two in each of Italian, French and Czech. I am pleased to recommend this film to no one, not even my sworn enemies, though if you are curious about how one would say "Tell Frenchie that if she spits one more time, I will pis$ in her bed" in the Czech language, then this may be the movie for you. Edited by Spanky on 28 March 2011 at 6:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6866 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 3 of 4 29 March 2011 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Babel" which uses English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and Berber languages (according to IMDB).
"Europa Europa" in German, Polish, Hebrew, and Russian. The main character himself is a polyglot who uses his wits and his indispensable language skills to survive as a Jew in the German army. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5691 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 4 of 4 29 March 2011 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I recently watched "Joyeux Noël," a really lovely film based on a true story that took place during WWI. The dialogue is in German, French, and Scottish-English (my Scottish roots make it impossible for me to simply say "English"). The film blurb runs as follows:
"In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, Scottish and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence." I would definitely recommend this film. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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