MANGAWHAI MOVIES
1:45 PM | THE PASSENGER
Sun, 13 Jul
|Mangawhai Movies
2010 | Opera | 2 H 40 Min| Not rated
Time & Location
13 Jul 2025, 1:45 pm – 4:40 pm
Mangawhai Movies, 181 Molesworth Drive, Mangawhai, New Zealand
About the event
2010 | Opera | 2H 40 Min | Not rated
Mieczysław Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family’s ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz’s autobiographical novel. The score was praised by Shostakovich for its ‘beauty and greatness’, with a narrative that unfolds on an ocean liner bound for Brazil on which a former Auschwitz guard and one of her Polish prisoners confront impossible moral conflict and harrowing flashbacks in music that is sparse, dark, sardonic and intermittently tender. This acclaimed Bregenz Festival production draws us movingly into the raw unimaginable madness of this imperishable moment in history.
The film is the fourth of six operas being screened at 3pm on the second Sunday of each month - April to September, as part of the 2025 Mangawhai Opera Lovers Film Festival.
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Tickets
Adult
Cash payment required at the door (We have Eftpos available)
NZ$15.00
Total
NZ$0.00