Synopsis:

In a castle Vogelöd the aristocracy awaits the arrival of countess Safferstätt. Among them is the uninvited count Oetsch. Everyone believes that, three years ago, he murdered his brother, countess Safferstätt’ s first husband. Even though he is unwanted, the count stays. He keeps stressing that he is not the murderer and swears to find the perpetrator… It is often said that Schloß Vogelöd was the director’s warming up for the film Nosferatu.

b/w, 56 min

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Saturday 01.03.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is the first film version of Dracula, brilliantly creepy and full of imaginative expressions never achieved by any director of similar themes. The role of Nosferatu was played by Max Schreck and he became the most ominous (and the ugliest) vampire in film history. It is an interesting fact that this film is not an official adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but rather its direct plagiarism. Stoker’s widow unsuccessfully demanded from the court to ban and destroy this film. But...

b/w, silent, 94'

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Tuesday 04.03.2003 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

The old porter of the Atlantis hotel is proud of his job and he does it well, perhaps even too well. One day he has to carry a huge suitcase because the bellboy is not around. For a moment he sits down and rests. But the young hotel manager sees him and writes him up. So, the porter loses his job and is degraded to work in the hotel’s toilets. He tries to hide his sadness and it seems only a miracle could help him…

b/w, silent, 90'

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Saturday 08.03.2003 AT 15:00

Synopsis:

Adaptation of Molier’s theatre play which has, for years, been on the black list of the Catholic church. It is a satire about religious hypocrisy and a parasite. The action takes place in Prussia in the time of Friedrich II. This Murnau film achieved great success. It premiered in Berlin in January 1926. Emil Jannings, the leading actor, personally wanted to play Tartüff because the character has tragic and comic strength of demonic power.

b/w, silent, 70'

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Saturday 08.03.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

Faust is a luxurious German production that ensured Murnau a contract with the Hollywood studio Fox. Mefisto, brilliantly portrayed by Emil Jannings, offers to the old Faust an opportunity to be young again, for the price of his soul. This is a highly stylized film, which was disturbingly realistic at the time of its creation.

b/w, silent, 107'

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Tuesday 18.03.2003 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

On an island in the Bora Bora lagoon, a young fisherman is in love with a girl. But the girl is chosen by her tribe to be sacrificed to their God. So, she becomes a taboo for all men – she is not allowed to marry and have a life like other girls on the island. The tribal holy man takes the girl into the forest, and the fisherman jumps into the ocean and swims after them…The film Taboo is almost a documentary account of life on an island in Polynesia. Its purpose was to encourage the...

b/w, 86'

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Tuesday 18.03.2003 AT 21:00