SUNSET BOULEVARD – Bielefeld, Germany – May 23, 2015

Brigitte Oelke (Norma Desmond), Veit Schäfermeier (Joe Gillis), Ulrike Figgener (Betty Schaefer), Tom Zahner (Max Von Mayerling), Jonas Hein (Artie Green), Benjamin Armbruster (Artie Green), Carlos H. Rivas (Manfred), Bernard Niemeyer (Sheldrake), Ramon Riemarzik (Finance Man), Fabian Kaiser (Myron), Natascha C. Hill (Joanna/Heather/Astrologer), Michaela Duhme (Mary), Lado Lortkipanidze (Hog Eye), Lutz Laible (Guard), Evelina Quilichini (Larissa)

• Size: 4.20 GB
• Quality: A+
• Master: forcuepeek

Notes: Beautiful HD capture with some little shakiness and head obstruction on the left. Very nice close-ups and whide-shots. Missing the first 10 minutes of act two, starts in the middle of As If We Never Said Goodbye. Although Brigitte Oelke is a very moony and melancholic Norma and missed some obsession in my eyes, she did an absolutely wonderful job. Veit Schäfermeier seems a bit too old and not really the type of man Joe is/should be, but he did good as well. The staging is okay, but sometimes a little thrifty. I really did miss the splendor of Norma’s villa, it looked a bit dilapidated and too modest for a diva.