Cycle

From 16.12. To 23.12.2015.

100th Anniversary of Birth

Retrospective of Orson Welles

Retrospective of Orson Welles

 

Films in cycle

The Lady From Shanghai

(USA, 1947)

Directed by: Orson Welles
PHOTOGRAPHY: Charles Lawton Jr.
Synopsis:

Irish soldier Michael O'Hara saves a beautiful lady Elsa Bannister in Centarl Park from a thief. Afterwards, he joins her and her handicapped husband Arthur on the family yacht. Soon, he gets mixed up in a murder…

b/w, 87'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 17.12.2015 AT 21:00
Wednesday 16.12.2015 AT 19:00

Confidential Report

(France, Spain, Švicarska, 1955)

Directed by: Orson Welles
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jean Bourgoin
Synopsis:

Guy Van Stratten, American smuggler, leaves an Italian prison with a secret about a mysterious rich Arkadin, which was confined to him by a dying prisoner. However, Van Stratten is more interested in the rich man’s daughter Raina, the father’s pet. In order to get rid of the unwanted snoop, Arkadin proclaims amnesia on everything that happened before 1927 and sends Van Stratten to research his unknown past…. In this film, Orson Welles used a similar structure as in Citizen Kane to research t...

b/w, 93'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 17.12.2015 AT 19:00
Wednesday 16.12.2015 AT 21:00

Jane Eyre

(1943.)

Directed by: Robert Stevenson
PHOTOGRAPHY: George Barnes
Synopsis:

This is the film adaptation of the novel with the same title by Charlotte Brontë. The heroine Jane Eyre had a tough childhood as an orphan. Her cruel and selfish aunt put her in a boarding school for the poor where she was badly treated. Later, as a twenty-year-old woman, she accepts a job as a governess for the little girl Adele. She lives in an isolated castle whose owner, Edward Rochester, is mostly absent.

35 mm, b/w, 97 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 19.12.2015 AT 19:00
Friday 18.12.2015 AT 21:00

Tomorrow is forever

(1946.)

Directed by: Irving Pichel
PHOTOGRAPHY: Joseph A. Valentine
Synopsis:

The story begins during WW I when a young married couple, Elizabeth and John, get separated by the turmoil of war. Waiting for her husband to come back, Elizabeth works as a librarian in a local company. She is pregnant when she learns that her husband died. She is devastated and without any plans for her future. The owner of the company she works for, Lawrence Hamilton helps her out and they soon marry. They raise John’s son as their own and make a happy family. Twenty years later they meet an...

35 mm, b/w, 104 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 23.12.2015 AT 21:00
Sunday 20.12.2015 AT 19:00
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