Richard Cowan

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.

Antony and Cleopatra is an opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber. The libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli. After an unsuccessful premiere, the opera was extensively revised, 9 years later, by Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti.

A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who may have ordered the real successor's death.

The film tells the story of a love affair between a poor poet and an equally poor seamstress in 19th century Paris.