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Bluebeard's Castle. DE 1964. PC: Norman Foster Productions. D: Michael Powell. A film of the Bela Bartok opera with the libretto by Bela Balazs, A Kekszakallu herceg vara (1911). Design: Hein Heckroth. Starring Norman Foster (Bluebeard) and Ana Raquel Satre (Giuditta). 60 min. Ashbrittle Film Foundation. Presented by Mrs. Sibylle Nabel-Foster (Mrs. Norman Foster). Technicolor print. Sparse English subtitles. Viewed in Bologna, Arlecchino, 2 July 2008. - An impressive film of the fascinating opera, on the same level as Hoffmann's Tales, brilliant design by Hein Heckroth. Behind the seventh door death waits Giuditta. A parallel film to Peeping Tom.