According to the Cambridge dictionary, the German word Sehnsucht can be translated as “craving, desire, longing, pining, wistfulness, yearning.”, with the second syllabe ‘Sucht’ meaning addiction: the addiction to yearn and desire. Franz Schubert’s life and music are a complex experience of Sehnsucht, starting in his twenty-sixth year when he contracted an illness which inspired …
Comus is considered a debauched and decadent god of nocturnal revelry, son of Dionysus (in Greek mythology) or Bacchus (in Roman mythology), the god of drunkenness and wine. Comus is the character whose name is the title of a masque written by the poet John Milton presented in 1634 at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire, on …
Director: Miloš Forman Based on the book by the American writer Ken Kesey and adapted to cinema by the acclaimed Czech director Miloš Forman, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest presents the story of Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a recidivist in the criminal system, accused of various cases of aggression. Faced with a scientific evaluation …
