The Magic Flute story
The Magic Flute (Swedish: Trollflöjten) is Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film version of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte. It was intended as a television production and was first shown on Swedish television on 1 January 1975, but was followed by a cinema release later that year. The work is widely viewed as one of the most successful films of an opera ever made, and as an unusual item in the director's oeuvre.
10 total · 3 choice · 5 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| choosing between conflicting loyalties | choice | Pamina had to choose between her mother and her father |
| epic love | choice | central to the story was the epical love between Tamino and Pamina |
| man vs. woman | choice | central to the story was the conflict between Queen of the Night and Sarastro, probably tying into enlightenment ideas and backlashes thereto |
| father and daughter | major | Sarastro and Pamina |
| handing over the mantle before retirement | major | Sarastro wanted Tamino and Pamina to take over as leaders of the brotherhood because in their love was wisdom |
| love triangle | major | Tamino, Pamina, Monostratos |
| mother and daughter | major | Queen of the Night and Pamina |
| the need for companionship | major | Papageno spent the first half of the story lamenting that he had not a sweetheart, and looking for one |
| coping with an obnoxious chatterbox | minor | Tamino was upset with Papageno's incessant failure to be quiet in the Temple of Ordeal |
| patricide | minor | Queen of the Night ordered Pamina to kill Sarastro, her own father. |