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TITLE Rigoletto (1983)

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DISABILITY Disfigurement Hunchback

COUNTRY Germany

LENGTH 117

GENRE Opera

DIRECTOR Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

CAST Luciano Pavarotti

Ingvar Wixell

Edita Gruberova

Ferruccio Furlanetto

NOTES Rigoletto is a hunchbacked court jester at the court of the

Duke of Mantua. The Duke seduces the daughter of one of his courtiers. The father is enraged and the Duke sends him to the dungeons. As the father is dragged out in chains he curses the jester that the same will happen to him. Rigoletto has a beautiful daughter who he has kept from the eye of the Duke, but the Duke discovers her.

Also Italian version made in 1949.

 


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