DIVA DOLOROSA
Holland

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    Between 1913 and 1920, a number of films were produced in Italy that were strongly influenced by the ideals of black Romanticism: beauty always collied with pain; illness with sensuality; and love qith death.

     In a matchless style, the Italian film diva reshaped the concept of the sexually liberated womam that had been so popular in the decadent arts of the previous century. But her ode to unconditional passion could not go unpunished before the eyes of the cinema audience.

     A calvary of loss, guilt and self-torment was an inevitable fate in these stories. She played the dolorous diva, the diva dolorosa. In Diva Dolorosa the director's aim is to compose, with fragments from Italian diva films from the second decade of the century, a dramatic insight into the desires and passions of their female protagonists.
   
 
Director : Peter Delpeut
Screenplay : Peter Delpeut
Edition : Menno Boerema
With : Lyda Borelli, Pina Menichelli, Francesca Bertini, Soava Gallone, Elena Makowska
Producer : Frank Roumen
Production : Filmmuseum (co-production: VPRO; collaboration: Cinemateca del Comune di Bologna)
World Sales : Filmmuseum
Tel.: 31 20 589 1400
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Col., 73min., 1999
 

Peter Delpeut was born in Vianen, Germany, 1956. He studied philosophy and film theory, then enrolled at the Dutch Film and TV Academy between 1980 e 1984, during which time he wrote film and TV reviews. From 1988-1995 he organised programmes for the Dutch Film Museum, where he is also managing director. Emma Zunz (1984), his first short film, received the jury special mention at the Kurzfilmfestival in Berlin and, in the same year, won a special award in Amsterdan. In 1992 The Forbidden Quest won awards as both the Mannheim Film Festival and the Oporto Film Festival. In 1998, his film Felice...Felice opened the 27 Rotterdam Festival. He has also published two collections of essays and a novel inthe last three years.