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Schräge Welten: "Das Wachsfigurenkabinett" - Stummfilm mit Livemusik

In the organizer's words:
In our film series with expressionist silent films, we are showing Paul Leni and Leo Birinski's "Das Wachsfigurenkabinett" from 1924, accompanied live on the piano by Frieder Egri. This will be accompanied by a lecture on how expressionist cinema came about and what it means for cinematic aesthetics and global film art.
THE WAXWORKS CABINET
DEU 1924. D: Paul Leni, Leo Birinski. D: Emil Jannings, Conradt Veidt, Werner Krauß, Wilhelm Dieterle, Olga Belajeff. 81 min. silent movie with live music. English intertitles. FSK: n. A.
For advertising purposes, a poet is asked to invent stories about the figures in a wax museum at the fair. He imagines episodes in the palace of Harun al-Raschid, the Caliph of Baghdad and in the torture chamber of Tsar Ivan the Terrible - and succumbs to a nightmare involving Jack the Ripper.
Paul Leni directed the almost fairytale-like episodic film and, as the set designer, also created the characteristic buildings that give the individual segments increasing elements of madness and menace until fantasy and reality merge in the brilliant finale: "A great moment in Weimar silent film cinema between art experience and funfair amusement" (Berlinale)
Introduction: Dr. Peter Bär
With lecture "How did expressionist films come about and what makes them special?" by Dr. Peter Bär and introduction to the film
Silent film with live piano music by Frieder Egri
Admission: 20 € / 15 € reduced / 13 € members Cinema Quadrat e.V.
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Price information:

Admission: 20 € / 15 € reduced / 13 € members Cinema Quadrat e.V.

Location

Cinema Quadrat K1 2 68159 Mannheim

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