And the Ship Sails On (1983)
- 7.6
- 128 mins
- Comedy
Storyline
In July 1914 a luxury cruise ship leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera singer Edmea Tetua. The boat is filled with her friends, opera singers, actors and all kinds of exotic people. Life is sweet the first days, but on the third day the captain has to save a a large number of Serbian refugees from the sea, refugees who has escaped the first tremors of WWI.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords
disillusionment, opera, refugee, sea, ship, surrealism, singing, travel, song, princess, gun, breaking the fourth wall, bomb, black and white segues into color, world war one, singer, lifeboat, year 1914, opera singer, class differences
Short Review
[The film] is to most movies what the Folies-Bergere was to the theater, a celebration of spectacle, even when it exists only for its own sake.
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Streaming Service
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