The Fountain of Arethusa (1936)
“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
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Sabine Earl as Aréthuse, the nymph |
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Michel Gevel as Alphée, the hunter |
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Tasso Janopoulo as Pianist |
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Jacques Thibaud as Violonist |
| Sound | Emile Vuillermoz | Conductor |
| Camera | Boris Kaufman | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Paul Duvergé | Sound |
| Writing | Emile Vuillermoz | Writer |
| Directing | Dimitri Kirsanoff | Director |
