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• Mozart: Don Giovanni -- Vienna/Furtwangler | DVD | (08/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The incomparable Cesare Siepi stars in this legendary Salzburg production of Mozart's masterpiece. Wilhelm Furtwangler conducts the internationally renowned Vienna Philharmonic in what has become one of the definitive productions of a classic opera.

• Mother Night | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mother Night is the third movie from director Keith Gordon (The Chocolate War, A Midnight Clear). The 35-year-old director who started as an actor (Christine) has turned into one of the more assured directors working today. His films are ambitious in plot and tone. With Mother Night he works with his first major star, Nick Nolte. In 1961, the fictitious Howard W Campbell Jr., an American by birth, shares the same deserted prison with Adolph Eichmann. As he prepares to stand trial for war crimes, the former playwright scribes his memoirs. Now this is the same Howard W. Campbell Jr. who was a notorious voice on German radio during the war, tearing into American policy and spreading Nazi propaganda. Was he a wilful participant or an American spy? Campbell, who romanticises at the drop of a hat, tells his story of indifference, morality, and love. His days of notoriety in Berlin give way to anonymity back in the States. He purrs about his true love (Sheryl Lee) and tells truths with his shrewd neighbour in New York (Alan Arkin). The movie is based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel of the same name. Gordon and screenwriter Robert E. Weide have an uncommon insight into Vonnegut's material: the mesh of fact and fiction, the sweeping themes, the tragic goofiness. The movie is perfectly suited to Nolte's gruff style with a husky voice that pierces the night. The film is a cherished companion piece to Slaughterhouse Five. --Doug Thomas

• Great Conductors of the 3rd Reich (Karajan, Furtwangler) | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £12.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (48.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Excerpts from Guillaume Tell Die Meistersinger Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.Includes a 20-page expose: Music in the Third Reich and biographies of the performers by Frederic Spotts.Stupendous performances staged for Nazi propaganda.Includes stunning newsreel footage.

• Ave Maria | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £33.99