![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the world’s richest woman makes an offer that is hard to refuse, we witness “a community slowly yielding to temptation” and what was at first unthinkable comes to be seen as inevitable. The Visit (2015 Nigerian film), a 2015 film starring Nse Ikpe Etim and Femi Jacobs. The Visit (2015 American film), a 2015 film by M. The drama tells the story of billionaire Claire Zachanassian who returns to her rundown hometown with a macabre proposition: she will donate a. The Visit (2000 film), directed by Jordan Walker-Pearlman. Written by Swiss author and playwright Friedrich Drrenmatt in 1956, The Visit ( Der Besuch der alten Dame or The Visit of the Old Lady in German) is a tragicomic play in three acts. But the eccentric millionairess, traveling with an entourage that includes husbands (numbers 7, 8 and 9), blind eunuchs, and a black panther, offers them a Faustian bargain and it becomes clear that the town’s financial salvation will come with a high moral price.ĭürrenmatt’s play has the sweep of a Greek tragedy yet is set in a contemporary, dying industrial town its unemployed serve as a chorus for our age. The Visit (1964 film), a 1964 adaptation of the Friedrich Dürrenmatt play starring Ingrid Bergman. When prodigal daughter Claire Zachanassian returns, the townspeople hope the millionaires will restore Guellen to its past glory. Guellen’s residents boast that Brahms composed a quartet when he visited and Goethe once slept there, but by the time of Freidrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, the town has fallen on hard times, its factories shuttered and its residents living on the dole. ![]()
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