form y separately published work icon A Soldier's Tale single work   film/TV   fantasy  
Adaptation of L'Histoire du Soldat Igor Stravinsky , Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz , 1918 single work musical theatre
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 A Soldier's Tale
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'In 1917, composer Igor Stravinsky and writer C.F Ramuz collaborated to produce a music-theatre work, entitled 'A Soldier's Tale', the story of a soldier returning from the wars who is tricked in to selling his soul to the Devil. Then, as now, the world was faced with intense moral, social and political dilemmas. Using advanced video technology, this Australian Television adaptation of their famous work reinterprets their Faustian morality tale for the late 20th century.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 30/8/2012)

This was the graduate film for prolific television director Richard Jasek, on his graduation from the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School in 1988. The film was released (with that of fellow 1988 graduates Shirley Barrett, Monica Pellizzari, Greg Woodland, Edmund Milts, and Gordon Taylor) on VHS by the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School.

Notes

  • Not to be confused with the 1988 full-length New Zealand film A Soldier's Tale.

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