John Adams' opera based on the Palestinian terrorist hijacking of the Mediterranean cruise ship Achille Lauro, which culminated in the murder of Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
General Note
"Award-winning British film-maker Penny Woolcock, working with the composer, has ingeniously reworked the original, using techniques afforded by film to imbue the narrative with realism. Whilst the main action is shot on location in the Mediterranean, actual and recreated archive footage tells the broader story of the characters before and after the hijacking"--Container.
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Special features: filming "The death of Klinghoffer"; director's commentary.