The silent film festival in Bonn, Germany is regarded worldwide as one of the most important of its kind. Here are films that were long lost be shown again in front of an audience. This year, a special cinematic rarity.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Silent eroticism: “Flesh and the Devil” (1926)
The silent film “Flesh and the Devil” (dt. Title “It was”) was based on a novel of the German author Hermann Sundermann. Even though it was a classic, conventional Melodrama, “Flesh and the Devil” still as remarkable because the canvas pair of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert sprayed therein, erotic sparks. Then Garbo/Gilbert were a Couple.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Art of symbolism: “astray” (1928)
Two years after “Flesh and the Devil” turned G. W. Pabst, the “great Realist of the Weimar cinema” (Bonn’s silent movie festival), in Germany, be socially critical Melodrama “carried away”. Siegfried Kracauer saw both movies, and wrote in 1928: “It seems as if the lipstick had been a recognized Symbol of sin.” In both films, this would be used to characterize the femme fatale.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
The art of cinema from Japan: “The dancer of Izu”
The Bonn silent film festival, the 2018 to 34. Change takes place, one of the world’s most important of its kind. The reputation it has gained, above all, because it only shows silent film pearls from Hollywood, Germany, and other European cinema Nations. An example of this year: “The dancer of Izu” to a novel by the Japanese Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Exotic looks: “The tomb of a great love” (1928)
In the first decades of the last century, people had to get to know the ways by plane to far distant regions of the world. Silent films were playing away from home, enjoyed a great popularity – such as the now beautifully restored Indian production “The tomb of a great love” of the German Franz Osten, in Bonn.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Studio Worlds: “Opium” (1918)
Also to India (and to China) took place in 1918, the rolling of the Film “Opium”. However, in contrast to “The tomb of a great love” was the production in Neubabelsberg: “If you don’t know where it was recorded, it is difficult to behind it, all of the Chinese quarter, Indian town, lions jungle – has been built in a suburb of Berlin,” wrote one critic at the time.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Documentary realism: “The swallow and the titmouse” (1920)
So something like the opposite of exotic worlds, André Antoine, presented in “The swallow and the titmouse”, which tells of the life of Kahnfahrern on French and Belgian channels. That was the producers barren and documentary, they let the production stop, the Material remained uncut. In 1984, the Film was restored and shown – a poetic masterpiece from Belgium!
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
History cinema: “The man who lost his memory” (1929)
As a German premiere is the 34. The Bonn silent film festival, the reconstructed version of the Soviet production of “The man who lost his memory”. Friedrich Ermler tells a story of war and Revolution and relies on the diversity of the cinematic language of form: The Russian cinema of the 1920s was one of the most innovative in the world.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
German Expressionism: “Faust” (1926)
Of course movies, which abounded with high of the desire to Experiment with their makers only appeared in Germany at the time. An example: the famous fist-filming of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. But this classic has to offer in Bonn, something New: Gerhart’s between the title, main is not used in the Premiere of the reconstructed version you see and read!
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Comedy I: “Everything in whipped cream” (1927)
Of course, there are to laugh at the Bonn film festival. The Stan & Oli-classic “All in whipped cream” for the second Time in Bonn. Already in 2015, the reconstructed version of the Comedy, was presented here – after, however, further fragments of the silent film were found. And so, the Festival is now another “new” version to see.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Comedy II: “Buster Keaton’s honeymoon” (1920)
And also this is a Comedy classic: “Buster Keaton’s honeymoon” showed the genius of Americans in an attempt to build for himself and his newly wedded wife a house. “In retrospect, Buster Keaton was probably the greatest of all Comedy Directors”, stated the renowned British film historian Kevin Brownlow in 1997.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Silent eroticism: “Flesh and the Devil” (1926)
The silent film “Flesh and the Devil” (dt. Title “It was”) was based on a novel of the German author Hermann Sundermann. Even though it was a classic, conventional Melodrama, “Flesh and the Devil” still as remarkable because the canvas pair of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert sprayed therein, erotic sparks. Then Garbo/Gilbert were a Couple.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Art of symbolism: “astray” (1928)
Two years after “Flesh and the Devil” turned G. W. Pabst, the “great Realist of the Weimar cinema” (Bonn’s silent movie festival), in Germany, be socially critical Melodrama “carried away”. Siegfried Kracauer saw both movies, and wrote in 1928: “It seems as if the lipstick had been a recognized Symbol of sin.” In both films, this would be used to characterize the femme fatale.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
The art of cinema from Japan: “The dancer of Izu”
The Bonn silent film festival, the 2018 to 34. Change takes place, one of the world’s most important of its kind. The reputation it has gained, above all, because it only shows silent film pearls from Hollywood, Germany, and other European cinema Nations. An example of this year: “The dancer of Izu” to a novel by the Japanese Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Exotic looks: “The tomb of a great love” (1928)
In the first decades of the last century, people had to get to know the ways by plane to far distant regions of the world. Silent films were playing away from home, enjoyed a great popularity – such as the now beautifully restored Indian production “The tomb of a great love” of the German Franz Osten, in Bonn.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Studio Worlds: “Opium” (1918)
Also to India (and to China) took place in 1918, the rolling of the Film “Opium”. However, in contrast to “The tomb of a great love” was the production in Neubabelsberg: “If you don’t know where it was recorded, it is difficult to behind it, all of the Chinese quarter, Indian town, lions jungle – has been built in a suburb of Berlin,” wrote one critic at the time.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Documentary realism: “The swallow and the titmouse” (1920)
So something like the opposite of exotic worlds, André Antoine, presented in “The swallow and the titmouse”, which tells of the life of Kahnfahrern on French and Belgian channels. That was the producers barren and documentary, they let the production stop, the Material remained uncut. In 1984, the Film was restored and shown – a poetic masterpiece from Belgium!
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
History cinema: “The man who lost his memory” (1929)
As a German premiere is the 34. The Bonn silent film festival, the reconstructed version of the Soviet production of “The man who lost his memory”. Friedrich Ermler tells a story of war and Revolution and relies on the diversity of the cinematic language of form: The Russian cinema of the 1920s was one of the most innovative in the world.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
German Expressionism: “Faust” (1926)
Of course movies, which abounded with high of the desire to Experiment with their makers only appeared in Germany at the time. An example: the famous fist-filming of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. But this classic has to offer in Bonn, something New: Gerhart’s between the title, main is not used in the Premiere of the reconstructed version you see and read!
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Comedy I: “Everything in whipped cream” (1927)
Of course, there are to laugh at the Bonn film festival. The Stan & Oli-classic “All in whipped cream” for the second Time in Bonn. Already in 2015, the reconstructed version of the Comedy, was presented here – after, however, further fragments of the silent film were found. And so, the Festival is now another “new” version to see.
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Silent Images Artists: 34. Silent Film Days In Bonn
Comedy II: “Buster Keaton’s honeymoon” (1920)
And also this is a Comedy classic: “Buster Keaton’s honeymoon” showed the genius of Americans in an attempt to build for himself and his newly wedded wife a house. “In retrospect, Buster Keaton was probably the greatest of all Comedy Directors”, stated the renowned British film historian Kevin Brownlow in 1997.
Movies from Hollywood and the Golden age of Weimar cinema, cinematic pearls from Japan and India, from the Soviet Union, Belgium, Sweden and France are to be seen in the 34. The output of the Bonn silent film festival. Since years the Festival is known worldwide as one of the most important of its kind, shown here long-lost films again in front of an audience.
Film archives and museums from all over the world to work together
Possible the premieres of the often very expensive reconstructions will be through the cooperation of the film museums and film archives around the world, specializing in the redesign of silent films. From Germany, for example, is particularly the Munich film Museum, where the just-deceased film historian Enno Patalas made in the 1980s, pioneering work in the field of film reconstruction, in the famous silent film made works such as “Metropolis” and “die Nibelungen” by Fritz Lang to restore.
The silent films in Bonn will be accompanied by Live music
And so it is also the film Museum in the Bavarian capital, is one of the most important cooperation partners of the Bonn silent film festival. Highlights of the Bonner program are traditionally shown in September in the Munich film Museum. The performance will also a movie that is likely to be counted in this year’s cinematic highlights in Bonn and its production and performance history alone can qualify as a “cinema ready”: “city without Jews” (article image: movie scene).
The Austrian Film from the year 1924, and is today regarded almost as a prophet, which relates to the topic of anti-Semitism. Director Hans Karl Breslauer filmed at the time, the popular novel by Hugo bed Lauer, tells the story of how in a fictional (Vienna-style) city a political and economic crisis leads to the fact that the Jews be expelled.
At that time, the city without Jews “was” controversial
The Film was very successful in cinemas and also came in the USA to the performance. Early on, the city was “without Jews” but also, for various reasons, controversial. – Right groups protested with stink bombs against the performance of the left and liberal voices criticising the fact that “the city without Jews,” criticized the anti-Semitism with anti-Semitic prejudices.
Also, expressionist side: “city without Jews”
“City without Jews” ran for around a decade in the cinemas, after that, he disappeared seemingly without a trace. 1933 was one of the last performances in Amsterdam took place – as a sign against Nazi Germany. It this movie was probably a copy that was discovered 60 years later by the “Nederlands film Museum”. However, as is often the case with such finds, it was a copy, with numerous missing parts and the usual wear and tear of time.
Sensational film Fund at the flea market
The greater the joy of the film was a scientist, as a 2015 at a flea market in Paris and a further copy of the “city without Jews” was discovered in addition, so far, missing sequences contained. So the Film could be made in the last few years, probably in a version, the premiere version is very close. Financed the reconstruction of the film with a big Crowdfunding action. The first performance of this new version took place in the spring in Vienna. Now, the city without Jews running “” in the 34. International silent film festival in Bonn.
The Festival in Bonn will take place from 16. up to the 26. August in the courtyard of the University of Bonn. A selection of the films will be screened afterwards in the Munich film Museum. The Film “city without Jews” is currently touring in various cities in Austria and Germany.