A vida o muerte (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946)DVDRip VOSE

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A Matter of Life and Death
(A vida o muerte / Stairway to Heaven)
(Gran Bretaña, 1946 [B/N-Color, 104 m.].
Género: Drama romántico, Drama bélico, Fantástico.
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Ficha técnica.
Direccion: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
Guión: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger.
Fotografía: Jack Cardiff.
Música: Allan Gray.
Producción: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, George R. Busby.
Productora: The Archers / Independent Producers.

Reparto: David Niven (Peter Carter), Kim Hunter (June), Marius Goring (Conductor 71), Roger Livesey (Dr. Frank Reeves), Raymond Massey (Abraham Farlan), Richard Attenborough (English Pilot), Robert Atkins (The Vicar), Kathleen Byron (Angel), Bonar Colleano (American Pilot), Joan Maude (Chief Recorder), Edwin Max (Dr. McEwen), Robert Coote (Bob Trubshawe), Betty Potter (Mrs. Tucker), Bob Roberts (Dr. Gaertler), Abraham Sofaer (Judge), Robert Arden (GI), Tom Duggan (American Policeman), Wally Patch (ARP Warden).

Sinopsis: Un piloto de bombarderos es derribado con su avión durante un duro combate aéreo. Es ingresado en el hospital y sometido a una complicada operación a vida o muerte. Durante las largas horas en que está anestesiado, extrañas fuerzas se juegan su destino final.
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Esta es la historia de dos mundos, uno que conocemos y otro que sólo existe en la mente de un joven piloto, cuya vida e imaginación han sido violentamente trastornadas por la guerra.Peter Carter (David Niven), después de un bombardeo nocturno a una ciudad alemana, regresa a Inglaterra con el avión ardiendo y ordena a la tripulación que salte en paracaídas, pero sabe que para él no hay ninguno y al mantener el último contacto con la torre de control le dice a la telefonista que prefiere saltar a morir abrasado.Peter, tiene la suerte de caer en el mar y ser arrastrado hasta la playa. Al recobrar el conocimiento después de tan violento golpe, él se cree que ha muerto y espera encontrarse con sus compañeros ya desaparecidos, pero a quien ve es a la telefonista en bicicleta por el camino de la playa. Pero la mente de Peter no discierne entre la vida o la muerte y en su mente se tiene que enfrentar a un tribunal celestial que será el que decida si está vivo o muerto. (Alpacine)

Un piloto inglés sobrevuela el Canal de la Mancha con su avión incendiado. Antes de morir, entabla por radio una conversación apasionada con una radiotelegrafista americana de la que se enamora. Por razones inexplicables, el aviador sobrevive y se encuentra con ella. En el cielo no entienden lo que ha pasado y envían en su busca a un caballero francés del siglo XVIII.

Romántica, atrevida y hermosa fantasía alegórica de dos cineastas cada vez más valorados por su fascinante imaginación: el gran Michael Powell, que formó un increíble tándem con el genial Emeric Pressburger. Pocas películas han dado una visión del cielo mejor: en ningún momento se cae en la cursilería (DeCine21).

AMG SYNOPSIS: Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise hit of 1946. David Niven stars as a World War II RAF pilot who is forced to bail out of his crippled plane without a parachute. He wakes up to find he has landed on Earth utterly unharmed...which wasn't supposed to happen according to the rules of Heaven. A celestial court argues over whether or not to claim Niven's life or to let him survive to wed his American sweetheart (Kim Hunter). During an operation, in which Niven hovers between life and death, he dreams that his spirit is on trial, with God (Abraham Sofaer) as judge and Niven's recently deceased best friend (Roger Livesey) as defense counsel. The film tries to have it both ways by suggesting that the Heavenly scenes are all a product of Niven's imagination, but the audience knows better. Among the curious but effective artistic choices in A Matter of Life and Death was the decision to film the Earthbound scenes in Technicolor and the Heaven sequences in black and white. The film was a product of the adventuresome team known as The Archers: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. -- Hal Erickson

AMG REVIEW: A Matter of Life and Death could easily be the most complex movie to come out of World War II: the film is a comedy that often leaves its viewers in tears; a romantic drama that makes audiences laugh; a literate movie with a multi-layered script that gives nods to Shakespeare and Schiller; yet, a film so dazzling in its visuals that it requires more than one viewing to absorb fully. A Matter of Life and Death (released in America as Stairway to Heaven) was the magnum wartime opus of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the writer-producer-director team who spent the years between 1940 and 1955 enthralling the world's filmgoers while outraging British officials and movie critics. A Matter of Life and Death was the first motion picture ever chosen for a Royal Command Performance, yet many critics thought it anti-British in sentiment, while still others felt that the romantic fantasy-comedy was tasteless in its very vivid reminder of the recent casualties suffered in the war. The film was inspired by Powell and Pressburger's awareness of the deteriorating relations between the British and the Americans near the end of the war, and by Pressburger's reading of an account of a Royal Air Force sergeant who had jumped out of a burning plane without a parachute, escaping with only minor injuries. The filmmakers wove the two threads together into a screenplay that presented its action against infinitely large and infinitely small canvases, often in the same scene. The story hinges on stricken pilot Peter David Carter (David Niven), who is at the center of a dispute (which may or may not be imagined) with the powers that rule the universe. From the deepest recesses of the human mind -- rendered in subjective, point-of-view camera shots from a man undergoing brain surgery -- audiences were treated to the fanciful sight of the universe expanding into infinity, and to a "trial" before a heavenly tribunal. In the course of the trial, the virtues and vices of the English and American peoples are satirized, concluding with the discovery of a common belief in justice and a recognition of the universal need for love; the movie's denouement is a celebration of peace and brotherhood reminiscent of Beethoven's Ode To Joy. Amid its extraordinary visual trickery and textural richness, A Matter... was also one of the funniest and saddest films about death to come out of World War II. The proceedings have an almost Shakespearean complexity, and the script's parallels with the Bard's work are underscored by the rehearsals for an amateur production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that take place in the midst of Carter's adventure. Marius Goring's Conductor 71 is nothing if not a Gallic Puck, working his magic to correct a mismatched romance caused by his own error. (Ironically, Powell had intended Conductor 71 to be German, but the duo's films had been so heavily criticized for being pro-German -- when in fact, they were ferociously anti-Nazi -- that he and Pressburger relented on this point.) The film was still resented in some critical circles in England, but it found a public on both sides of the Atlantic, and anywhere audiences were prepared to embrace its message and its art. -- Bruce Eder

- Criticas: Cinema de Perra Gorda / Aullidos, por Ramón Ruestes.
- Jaime Natche: "El ojo que todo lo ve. Homenaje a Michael Powell", Miradas de Cine, nº 44 (noviembre, 2005).

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