Carmen

Carmen is a 1984 French-Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is a film version of Bizet's opera, Carmen. Julia Migenes stars in the title role, Plácido Domingo as Don José, Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo, and Faith Esham as Micaela. Lorin Maazel conducts the Orchestre National de France. The film premiered in France on March 14, 1984, and in the U.S. on September 20 of that year. In 1985, the film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. Cast Julia Migenes-Johnson as Carmen Plácido Domingo as Don José Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo Faith Esham as Micaëla John-Paul Bogart as Zuñiga Jean-Philippe Lafont as Dancaïre Gérard Garino as Remendado Susan Daniel as Mercédès Lillian Watson as Frasquita François le Roux as Moralès Julien Guiomar as Lillas Pastia Accursio Di Leo as Guide Maria Campano as Manuelita Cristina Hoyos as dancer Juan Antonio Jiménez as dancer Production Rosi selected 1875 for the period and filmed entirely on locations in Andalusia, using Ronda and Carmona and Seville itself to simulate the Seville of that era. He worked with his longtime collaborator, the cinematographer Pasqualino De Santis, and with Enrico Job supervising the sets and costumes. Rosi acknowledged Gustave Doré's illustrations of Spain for Baron Charles Davillier's Spain (which was published in serial form in 1873) as his principal source for the visual design. He believed that Bizet, who never visited Spain, was guided by these engravings, and shot scenes in some of the exact places that Doré drew.