US Embassy presents: Telling the American Story: Literature in Cinema: A Streetcar Named Desire
Dir Elia Kazan
USA 1951, 122 min
In English, with English subtitles
Location: Kumu Auditorium
Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, A Streetcar Named Desire made its way from Broadway to the big screen in 1951. Based on the play by the American playwright Tennessee Williams, this film adaptation by Academy and Tony Award-winning director Elia Kazan tracks the moral and mental disintegration of the Southern belle Blanche DuBois after she moves into her sister’s and brother-in-law’s run-down flat in working class New Orleans. Dripping with atmosphere and boasting legendary performances by Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, two of the era’s most famous Hollywood actors, A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most celebrated Southern Gothic classics in American film.
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