Country: USA
Year: 1991
Duration:
Surviving Desire is about a brilliant but absentminded professor of literature, Jude, and his obsession with a passage from The Brothers Karamazov. The professor suspects himself of being an atheist facing a crisis of conscience. He feels attracted to the student Sophie, which doesn't make things any easier. Sophie, a novice writer, is fascinated by the feelings of her teacher and eventually falls under his spell. In Surviving Desire Hartley also tells a story of love and deception, with characters who are intelligent, but that doesn't bring them any closer to real happiness.
Biography
film director
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley was born in 1959 and grew up in the suburbs outside New York City. He attended art school for one year (1978-79) in Boston. He attended the State University of New York at Purchase Film School from 1980 to 1984. He moved to New York City after graduation and completed three short films between then and 1988 when he made his first feature film, The Unbelievable Truth. He lives and maintains his production company, True Fiction Pictures, in New York City.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Ambition (cm, 1991), Theory of Achievement (cm, 1991), Surviving Desire (cm, 1991), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994), NYC 3/94 (video, cm, 1994), Opera (cm, 1994), Flirt (1995).
Cast
& Credits
Director, screenplay and editor: Hal Hartley.
Director of photography: Michael Spiller.
Music: Ned Rifle.
Sound: Jeff Pullman.
Cast: Martin Donovan, Matt Malloy, Rebecca Nelson, Julie Sukman, Mary Ward.
Director of Production: James Schamus.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: American Playhouse True Fiction Pictures, 12
West 27th St., New York, NY 10001, tel. 2126844284, fax 2126866109.
Director of photography: Michael Spiller.
Music: Ned Rifle.
Sound: Jeff Pullman.
Cast: Martin Donovan, Matt Malloy, Rebecca Nelson, Julie Sukman, Mary Ward.
Director of Production: James Schamus.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: American Playhouse True Fiction Pictures, 12
West 27th St., New York, NY 10001, tel. 2126844284, fax 2126866109.