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- BFI identifier222669
- Date1959 (Release)
- Production countrySpain, United Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisTourist vew of Spain, interspersed with a slight love story and ballets featuring Antonio ("El Amor brujo" and "Las Amants de Teruel"). (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Michael Powell
Production Company: Suevia Film (Madrid)
Production Company: Everdene Films
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Title
Luna de miel (Original)
Honeymoon (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/7854-655D-0D8E-312B-1B3E-0Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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35mm Safety - Combined - Master
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35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Status pending
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Master
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Luna de Miel - Romantic drama. An Australian farmer and his new bride - a former ballerina - are driving through Europe on their honeymoon when they help a stranded motorist, who they discover is a famous dancer, Antonio. The bride is encoraged to join his dancing company and tour through Spain. Produced and directed by Michael Powell; script: Michael Powell, Luis Escobar, based in part on the ballet 'El Amor Brujo' by Gregorio Martínez ; photography: Georges Perinal; art direction and costume design: Ivor Beddoes; editing: Peter Taylor Cast: Anthony Steel; Ludmilla Tchérina; Antonio; Rosita Segovia; Léonide Massine [The film is something of a travelogue around Spain with dance interludes, mainly set to the repeated theme of "The Honeymoon Song" by Mikis Theodorakis. Performed in the film by Marino Marini and his quartet, it was subsequently recorded by many performers, including The Beatles] Monthly Film Bulletin commented 'Basically, the film is an enormous travel poster of the most blatant kind, full of fast cars, sumptuous hotels, elegant dresses, flowing money and lovely scenery with never a spot of dirt or a hint of discontent to cloud its beautiful vision' In his book 'Million Dollar Movie' Powell comments 'Our casting was odd to say the least. Luis Escobar had written the parts of our honeymooners for Moira Shearer and Paul Scofield. When they turned it down we ended up with Ludmilla Tcherina and Anthony Steel...HONEYMOON was not a lucky picture. In everything I did or proposed to do I was frustrated, or nearly so. I wanted Joan Miro to design the Amor Brujo but he refused. Even when I flew to Mallorca and camped outside his villa to persuade him he refused to come out and I flew back to Barcelona in high dugeon. The Catalan painter Durancamps, a masterful painter who used the colours of Zurburan eventually did the job. But it was cruel of Miro not to come out of his guarded fortress. Antonio and I couldn't agree about the composer for the ballet Los Amantes de Teruel until I suggested Mikis Theodorakis, whose work delighted him. The costumes and design were supervised by Ivor Beddoes, who had so often in the past substituted for Hein...my dear friend and genius Leonide Massine joined us to dance the ghost in the ballet Amor Brujo and he choreographed the ballet of The Lovers of Terruel, Antonio danced in both ballets as well as doing flamenco and zapateado on the high roads of Spain. The elemenst were all right but the organisation was raw and the whole thing never came together. I should never have taken it on. Enough said. ' - MLP-1-1-69
Script - Script draft handwritten by Michael Powell . The title page reads 'HONEYMOON - an original story written for the screen by Michael Powell. To be produced and directed in colour and Technirama in Spain - Winter 1957-9 for Cesareo Gonzalez. Copyright: Michael Powell Prodyctions Ltd, London / Suevia Films, Madrid' 1957 [Please note: this item is housed in a Timecare Box] - MLP-1-1-69-1-1
Script - Original script uncut (intact version of script before cut and pasted into a later version], 175 pages, red paper cover, no annotation, title page reads 'HONEYMOON - an original story written, produced and directed by Michael Powell for Cesareo Gonzalez in Technirama; screenplay by Michael Powell and Luis Escobar' September 1957 - MLP-1-1-69-1-2
Draft screenplay - File [originally in a manila envelope marked 'Draft materials for screenplay' including: - single page description 'The story of El Amor Brujo' handwritten by Michael Powell - lyrics to songs - script correspondence , March 1958 - script in rough form c. December 1957 - March 1958 - MLP-1-1-69-1-3
Small pressbook held. See PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY MATERIAL List.
view all - Posters / DesignsDesign: costume - 8 costume designs for modern clothes for female character (unlabelled, but probably the female lead, Ludmilla Tcherina). All signed: Ivor. - BED42
Design: costume - 12 costume designs, for misc. characters in ballet "El Amor Brujo". Most signed and dated (29 Nov 1957). Plus 1 sheet of rough ink sketches for grotesque characters (6 sketches, mounted with old Sellotape).. - BED46
Design: production - Rough layout for ad/poster: head of man with flat-brimmed Spanish flamenco hat, with text: "Michael Powell's HONEYMOON starts where THE RED SHOES left off..." - BED44
Design: production - 24 loose continuity sketches, for miscellaneous scenes, including hotel room, ballet rehearsals, dance sequences. - BED45
Design: production - Numerous rough sketches, layouts, designs, and continuity sketches for miscellaneous scenes, sequences, matte shots, and characters, including 2 ballets, "El Amor Brujo" and "Los Amantes de Teruel", and ideas for the film's main title and end sequences. 2 boards of title sequence continuity sketches are mounted on sheets with credits painted on clear palstic overlays. Continuity sketches for: "Los Amantes de Teruel", End titles (labelled "for Bronesky Presentation, dated May 1959), - BED41
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