Chinese Puzzle For Judoka Aka Casse Tête Chinois Pour le Judoka (1967) Maurice Labro, Marc Briand, Marilù Tolo, Heinz Drache

Judoka Marc Saint-Clair tries to save the world from nuclear disaster fighting Chinese and Russians. Presented in it's original French dialogue, and VERY rarely emitted on television, Maurice Labro's last of 6 espionage films stars Marc Briand (actually a true judoka, who's acting career was short lived) as Marc St-Clair, who brilliantly wins a gold medal at a tournament at a school of Kendo in Japan. He offers his trophy to his friend Clyde (Paolo Tiller), an American pilot, shortly before Clyde's set to fly in the company of a C.I.A. agent (Heinz Drache) on an experimental supersonic bomber, to a mission of espionage in China.

Lilya Zilberstein has already taken on some of the virtuoso pillars of the repertoire for DG—Brahms's Paganini Variations, the Mussorgsky Pictures, Rachmaninov's Third Concerto and so it is fascinating to hear her in music of a more subtle evocation and delicacy. And although her Debussy and Ravel are hardly consistent or to the manner born, they are rarely less than individual or distinguished. Like other Russian pianists before her she places greater emphasis on the music's sensuous and expressive warmth than on its formal clarity. Her response to say, ''Le soiree dans Grenade'' (from Estampes) is richly coloured and inflected (a reminder, perhaps, of Falla's awe of Debussy's Hispanicism) and in ''Jardins sous la pluie'' her virtuosity evokes a coldly drenched and windswept garden its flowers momentarily bejewelled by passing sunlight. She is also highly successful in the more objective patterning of Pour le piano, making the opening Prelude's fortissimo chording and shooting-star glissandos resonate with unusual power.

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