Lost Souls
Lost souls
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Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) 1919 Ages 15+ Different from the Others made screen history as an explicit call for gay rights. It was banned even before the Nazis took over and exists only as a fragment. Thu 27 Nov 2.00pm (with The Merry-Go-Round) / Cinema A |
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Der Reigen - Ein Werdegang (The Merry-Go-Round) 1920 All ages The Merry-Go-Round charts the downward spiral of an orphan played by Danish superstar Asta Nielsen, who is preyed upon by Conrad Veidt, amongst others. Thu 27 Nov 2.00pm (with Different from the Others) / Cinema A |
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Die Hintertreppe (Backstairs) 1921 All ages Backstairs is a Carl Mayer kammerspielfilm (chamber feature) featuring a housemaid, her absent lover, and a crippled postman. Thu 27 Nov 12 noon (with Variety) / Cinema A |
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Scherben, ein deutsches Filmkammerspiel (Shattered) 1921 All ages Werner Krauss plays a plodding railroad track-walker in Lupu Pick’s drab family crime story made to fit screenwriter Carl Mayer’s rigorous self-imposed rules: no more than three characters, acting in sharply constricted time and space, with virtually no intertitles. Wed 26 Nov 6.00pm (with Sylvester) / Cinema B |
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Sylvester, Tragödie Einer Nacht (Sylvester) 1923 All ages Eugen Klöpfer is a hulking pub owner caught between his wife and his mother and another of Lupu Pick’s family crime stories. Wed 26 Nov 6.00pm (with Shattered) / Cinema B |
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Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh aka The Last Man) 1924 All ages A German kammerspielfilm on the grand plan, and one of the glories of silent cinema. It is Carl May’s story with a Brechtian stinger in its tail, about a proud hotel doorman who is demoted to lavatory attendant. Karl Freund's camera-on-wheels glides, swings, and see-saws, recording Emil Jannings’ classic performance. Sun 30 Nov 3.00pm / Cinema A |
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Varieté (Variety) 1925 All ages Variety ranks as one of Weimar Germany’s most influential films. Second-rate trapeze artists, consumed by jealousy, plot against each other while working their high-flying act without a safety net. Notable for Karl Freund’s virtuoso camerawork and Emil Jannings’ performance. Thu 27 Nov 12 noon (with Backstairs) / Cinema A |
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Geheimnisse einer Seele (Secrets of a Soul) 1926 All ages Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s nuanced take on psychoanalysis. Werner Krauss panics when in a dream he tries to stab his wife, and sees a psychiatrist. Knives, doors, stairs, and ladders appear in double and triple-exposure, the contents of an afflicted mind. Pabst’s adroit film technique creates a multi-layered work that may (or may not) contain a critique of psychoanalysis. Freud himself repudiated the film. Sat 29 Nov 1.00pm / Cinema A |
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The Lodger 1926 All ages Matinee idol Ramon Novello stars as the creepy lodger in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent version of the popular 1913 mystery novel by Mrs Belloc Lowndes about the crimes of Jack the Ripper. Hitchcock gives it the eerie visual touches he had learned from the Germans when working as an art director at Universum-Film. It was also Hitchcock’s first international triumph. Fri 28 Nov 6.00pm / Cinema B |
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Heimkehr (Homecoming) 1928 All ages A love triangle of sorts, featuring two friends locked up in a Siberian prisoner of war camp, one of whom (Gustav Frohlich) escapes and decides to visit his friend’s wife (Dita Parlo). Complications ensue. Lavish studio stylisation alternates with raw, semi-documentary footage of the seaport of Hamburg. Sun 30 Nov 1.00pm / Cinema A |
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Mädchen In Uniform (Maidens in Uniform) 1931 All ages Leontine Sagan’s all-too-seldom-seen gem set in a boarding school for well-to-do girls, where an unhappy pupil’s crush on a beloved teacher triggers violent retaliation from the demonic Headmistress. Today considered a landmark in Queer cinema, it is also one of German cinema’s great love stories. Sat 29 Nov 3.00pm / Cinema A |
