The Fountain of Arethusa (1936)

The Fountain of Arethusa

1936

Music Fantasy

Synopsis

“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.

Credits

Director

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Cast

Jacques Thibaud as Violonist

Michel Gevel as Alphée, the hunter

Sabine Earl as Aréthuse, the nymph

Tasso Janopoulo as Pianist

Crew

Emile Vuillermoz (Conductor)

Boris Kaufman (Director of Photography)

Paul Duvergé (Sound)