In this episode of the Burgess Foundation Podcast, we’re exploring the making of the new documentary film, A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy, with the directors Elisa Mantin and Benoit Felici.

A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy, is the first new documentary to focus on Burgess since The Burgess Variations in 1999. Drawing on archive footage, startling new animations, and interviews with major cultural figures, this documentary reconsiders the 60-year history of A Clockwork Orange as a novel, film, stage play and cultural influence. The filmmakers also worked in the archive at the Burgess Foundation and used images of Burgess’s home city of Manchester to tell their story.

The film also contains interviews with an international cast of artists, writers, musicians and experts, including Will Self, Ai Weiwei, and Campino, the lead singer of the German punk band Die Toten Hosen. These different perspectives offer new insights into A Clockwork Orange and its legacy.

A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy is directed by Elisa Mantin and Benoit Felici for ARTE, the pan-European public service channel dedicated to cultural programming. It is currently available at ARTE’s website in French, German and Spanish. It is our hope that the English language version of the film will soon find a distributor in the UK and USA.

Elisa Mantin has been making television documentaries for more than 30 years. Her previous subjects include Salman Rushdie, John Berger, Roberto Saviano and Colette. In 1997 she directed a 45-minute programme about Anthony Burgess for French television. She is an honorary patron of the Burgess Foundation.

Benoit Felici’s previous films include: Unfinished Italy, an exploration of Italy’s modern-day ruins; The Real Thing, a film about architectural replicas of national monuments around the world; and a film about the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, famous for his portraits consisting of vegetables and other inanimate objects.

Links

A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy has been released in French and German on ARTE, and a Spanish version is scheduled for broadcast.

To watch the French version, Orange méchanique: les rouages de la violence, click here.

To watch the German version, Clockwork Orange: Im Räderwerk der Gewalt, click here.

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