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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 49

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Soviets quit filnifest over 'Deer Hunter Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun." portraying life in post-World War II West Germany as seen through the eyes of one woman. Other American entries are "Hard Core," describing the involvement of a Los Angeles teenager in the porno film business; "Blue Collar," a thriller showing how three innocent men get caught up in a web of trade union corruption both are by "Taxi Driver" director Paul Schrader and Stanley Donen's spoof on the old days of Hollywood, "Movie Movie France has two entries. "Love on the Run," directed by Francois Truffaut, and "The Adolescent." which is actress Jeanne Moreau's second venture into directing and depicts voung love in rural France in the months before World War II. Britain's offering comes from "Marat Sade" director Peter Brook with "Meetings with Remarkable Men." Shot largely in Afghanistan it traces the childhood and youth of guru Georg Gurdjieff. In addition to the main competition.

50 films from countries including Australia, China, Albania and Brazil are being screened in an international information show. A musical event at BSO 1 Jfr REVIEW MUSIC Robert DeNiro on patrol in Vietnam in "The Deer Hunter." Reuter WEST BERLIN The Soviet Union and a group of its communist allies stormed out of an international film festival yesterday saying the American film "The Deer Hunter" insulted Vietnam. Rostislav Yurenyev. head of the Soviet delegation to the 29th Berlinale Festival, said the film, which received nine Academy Award nominations two days ago, contained "insults against the heroic people of Vietnam." "This is particularly unacceptable at this time when they are subject to barbaric aggression from China." Yurenyev added. The Soviet Union withdrew its single entry in the competition part of the festival and a group of films from promotional categories.

Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Cuba and East Germany joined in the protest and also withdrew their films. "The Deer Hunter," starring Robert De Nirp, shows the suffering of three GIs in the Vietnam war. One of the scenes believed to have upset the communist group shows U.S. prisoners-of-war being mistreated by Vietnamese guards and forced to play "Russian roulette." Yurenyev told a news conference the film was opposed to the aims of the Berlin festival, which were to increase understanding between peoples. He said the Soviet Union voiced disquiet over the film, which was shown yesterday, 10 days ago.

Festival chief Wolf Donner, who said the Soviet protest was handed in yesterday, told the conference the Berlinale organizers had no power to censor films or to withdraw entries. He said they expected competing countries to respect this. "The film is an expression of a courageous, self-critical attitude on the part of the Americans and a sincere comment against war, violence and aggression," he added. Earlier yesterday, "Deer Hunter" director Michael Cimino told reporters the film was "nonpolitical" and not intended in any way as a comment on the Vietnamese. The organizers said the festival would continue without the films from the communist countries.

At the core of the two-week Berlinale, the first major international film showcase of 1979, is a competition for the "Golden Bear" award in which 21 full-length films from countries including the United States, France, Britain and West Germany are competing. The Berlinale started off with one of the main local favorites for the award. West German director Rainer screened out the music, particularly in the last-movement minuet The collaboration with Tennstedt was never truly collaborative; it wasn't a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, but the performances of conductor, orchestra and soloist were naver really complementary either the concerto maintained interest rather than carrying conviction. On the other hand, nothing could have been more convincing, or more delightful, or more beautiful, than the performance of Strauss' orchestral suite, -Le Bourgeois gentilhomme' that came after intermission. Tco much of the incident in this transparent but crowded score had simply not been heard when Tennstedt conducted it at Tanglewood last summer; it evaporated into the spaces of the shed.

But this time each of the BSO's principal players clearly demonstrated why he or she is in the world of his or her instrument an international celebrity. One singles out the panache of concertmaster Joseph Silverstein's polonaise and the eloquence of Jules Eskin's long cello rumination in "The Dinner" only because these were the longest and most exposed of the solos; each one of the hundreds in this work was a miracle, and each one of them, thanks to Tennstedt, was not a star-turn but a part of an advancing whole, elegant, warm-hearted, and witty. There has been no more conclusive demonstration of our orchestra's greatness lately, and the demonstration of the conductor's greatness was that he made this music, during its length, seem and sound all-sufficient. TIIF BOSnn ORCIIF.STRt. Klaus l-nnstrdt londiuting.

uith. Alfred Urt-ndel. pianist, in a program music Mozart and Rii h-ard Strauss at Symphony Hall last night. By Richard Dyer Globe Staff No event of the musical season has been more eagerly anticipated by connoisseurs than the first conjunction of conductor Xlaus Tennstedt and pianist Alfred Brendel (and the pianist's first local appearance with orchestra); one fan even flew in from Bangladesh. In the actual event, Mozart's E-flat Piano Concerto.

K. 271, the performance was the least convincing aspect of a generally superb concert. Tennstedt's great hours with the BSO have not been those devoted to music written before Beethoven, but the performance of "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" that opened the concert was his most convincing so far in that repertory. It was not something for those who believe that Mozart should sound an natural and easy as breathing, a belief recently nutured by Colin Davis; instead it was as "natural" and "easy" as great singing, richly colored, dynamically expansive, highly inflected, flexibly phrased. Within its own terms nothing more sheerly gorgeous has been heard in Symphony Hall this season.

Brendel's approach, on the other hand, is quite dif- ferent; he hears Mozart in terms of clarity and accent rather than in those of color and spaciousness and weight. He did some altogether superb playing in the concerto, particularly in the strange and wonderful cadenza of the great aria that is the slow movement (no pianist rivals Brendel in making strange music sound both surprising and inevitable) and in the whirling motion of the last-movement presto he found the total technical fluency that had eluded him in the first movement. On the other hand, his actual sound, or that of the piano he chose, was in no way attractive and his didactic, let-me-show-you-the-details manner occasionally "SUPERMAN is a hit the sort of entertainment that can be enjoyed over and over again. can't wait to see it "It's a bird, it's planejt'safiiffi; that's fun for superman" will be a smash" -TIME MAGAZINE i -RONA BARRETT "ABC TV TECHNICOLOR" tw 9CENA vista DISTRIBUTION co inc hM GENERAL AUDIENCES, 1978 Wt O-snty Prooucwiw 1 I ,1 ,0, US and a NEW animation featurette destined to become a DISNEY HOLIDAY CLASSIC mos! I theatres I in.n.n.o.TnfT3.iiii).i;iii.iii.i.n.i Now! A Special School vacation treat near you! ii 'iT ii iinir" wi ifitkiii 111111 wn hi i immn 11 1 'I III. W.

PEAB0DY K'mi'i Plan W.NEWTON Cinema R0XBURY uNimiNiniimitimniH Vtlllji WALTHAM RL 128 NORWOOD Cinema S. Broadway SALEM Salom SAUGUS Cinema ST0NEHAM Cinema ARLINGTON Regnt CAMBRIDGE Fresh Pond DEDHAM Community DORCHESTER Park N. READING Ciruma Sorry, no Passes Accepted ml mfmmmmrwiirnwm'mtrr CINEMA 57 1 1 RGHAM SrT IF boston h-m 566-4040 235-8020 bt )2bniii93 bouti it 126 otimm trkmau 12:20 12:20 12:20 12:20 jfr iAfi iWi -vffiK. Klaus Tennstedt autographs albums at the Harvard Coop yesterday, assisted by the Coop's Helga Newcomb. (Globe photo by Ted Dully) 200 Klausketeers meet their hero Klaus Tennstedt made his first local store appearance yesterday afternoon, and about 200 fervent Klausketeers turned up at the Harvard Coop to greet him and get his autograph.

The maestro from Meresburg, Germany, seemed a bit surprised at the turnout and kept shaking his hand in mock-fatigue. At one point he looked up and asked Boston Symphony Orchestra Assistant Manager Gideon Toeplitz, "Where is Arthur Fiedler?" Helga Newcomb, chief classical salesperson at the Coop, was hostess for the occasion. She advised fans about how to pronounce Tennstedt's name. Newcomb stood next to Tennstedt's chair, deftly removed plastic shrinkwrap from records and lifted fans across the language barrier. The protestations of gratitude and admiration were1 similar, and so were the questions.

Tennstedt will continue his Mahler Symphony series with the London Symphony Orchestra for Angel (though many were buying the superior imported EMI pressing) and will record all the Schumann Symphonies with the Berlin Philharmonic. He will not be making any records with the BSO since he is now an exclusive EMI artist. Yes, he will be back at Tanglewood this summer, with a Wagner program. "I come back to Tanglewood every year." He has no immediate plans to conduct opers. "I came from opera, but now I have no time." Recently he conducted 12 concerts with the Israel Philharmonic.

"It was fantastic; it is a very delicate orchestra and we did good work together." The last of the customers was BSO principal second violin Marylou Speaker, who presented Tennstedt with a caricature drawn last season by substitute flutist Elinor Preble; the maestro rose and kissed Speaker's hand. "We have a very hard work to do tonight in Symphony Hall," Klaus Tennstedt said. RICHARD DYER DINODELAURENTIIS presents A MICHAEL CRICHTON FILM If THE GREAT TRAIN starring SEAN DONALD CONNERY SUTHERLAND and LESLEY-ANNE DOWN A JOHN FOREMAN PRODUCTION SHOWCASE DEDHAM 326-4955 ROUTE 1 ot 128 SACK CHER1 1-2-3 iO OAIION OPP SHIR ATON BOSTON 536-2870 SHOWCASE WOBURN 933-5330 RT. 128 NEAR 93 Screenplay by MICHAEL CRICHTON based on his novel Music by JERRY GOLDSMITH Produced by JOHN FOREMAN Directed by MICHAEL CRICHTON A Famous Films N.V. Production PANAVISION TECHNICOLOR read the bantam book; nnipomv stereo PG PftENf AL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED -SS-l United Artists SACK CINEMA NATICK 237-5840 ROUTE 9 OPP.

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