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The Satin Slipper (Le Soulier de satin) is a long play by the French dramatist and poet Paul Claudel, written in 1929. It was first performed on stage in 1943 (abridged), in a production by Claudel and Jean-Louis Barrault. Its full running time is roughly eleven hours.
- Paul Claudel
- 1929
The Satin Slipper, philosophical play in four “days” or sections by Paul Claudel, published in 1929 in French as Le Soulier de satin; ou, le pire n’est pas toujours sûr. It was designed to be read rather than performed (an abridged version was staged in 1943), and it is often considered Claudel’s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 8, 1986 · The Satin Slipper: Directed by Manoel de Oliveira. With Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny, Anne Gautier. During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America.
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- Drama
- Manoel de Oliveira
- 1986-01-08
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira. During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador.
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- Metro e Tal, Les Films du Passage
- Manoel de Oliveira
Feb 2, 2010 · Set at the turn of the 17th century, “The Satin Slipper” spans decades and continents in pursuing the story of a love triangle among Spanish nobility with a geopolitical subplot about the role of...
By turns dramatic and mystical, poetic and comical, lyrical and familiar, The Satin Slipper is truly, as Claudel intended it, a “summation” or, as Jean-Louis Barrault called it, his “synthesis”.
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Aug 15, 1996 · This amazing 1985 film by veteran Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, based on the 1924 play by Paul Claudel (which was nine hours long when first performed), is more than a...