Film

The Tarnished Angels

(La ronde de l'aube)

Retrospettiva: Douglas Sirk

USA · 1957 · 35 mm · Black and White · 91' · o.v. English

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The lost and doomed marginals of this ’tragic rondo’ are among Sirk’s greatest characters: fairground aviators adrift in the years of the Great Depression. An adaptation from Faulkner, which Sirk had been thinking about since the 1930s: “Perhaps, after all, it is my best film”. (D. Sirk)


Information

Director

Douglas Sirk

Screenplay

George Zuckerman

Cast

Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson

Producer

Albert Zugsmith

Cinematography

Irving Glassberg

Editing

Russell F. Schoengarth

Music

Frank Skinner, Joseph Gershenson

Production

Universal Pictures

International sales

Park Circus

Print

Harvard Film Archive