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Meeting Venus(1991)
Status: Released
Date: 1991-09-18
57%
20 Votes
Time: 1h 59m
Overview:
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Languages: German, French, English, Hungarian.
Countries:
Japan,
United Kingdom,
United States of America
Revenue: $1,000,348.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Enigma Productions
The Bountiful Company
Movie: Meeting Venus
Top 10 Billed Cast
Glenn Close
Karin Anderson
Niels Arestrup
Zoltan Szanto
Erland Josephson
Jorge Picabia
Macha Méril
Miss Malikoff
Johanna ter Steege
Monique
Marián Labuda
Von Schneider
Maïté Nahyr
Maria Krawiecki
Victor Poletti
Stefano Del Sarto
Dieter Rita Scholl
Delfin Van Delf
Jay O. Sanders
Stephen Taylor
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Overview
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Release Date
1991-09-18
Average
5.7
Rating:
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