Stummfilm mit Livemusik: "Die freudlose Gasse" - G. W. Pabst – Collage zu einem widersprüchlichen Leben

In the series on films of the New Objectivity, a silent film classic with live music and a lecture on director G.W. Pabst:

G. W. Pabst - a collage of a contradictory life

Austrian-born Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885 - 1967) achieved fame and renown from 1925 onwards with socially critical films in a realistic style that was later referred to as New Objectivity. From 1933, he attempted a career in Hollywood, but returned to Europe disappointed. Joseph Goebbels now hired the internationally renowned director, who made films such as KOMÖDIANTEN (1941) and PARACELSUS (1943), which were very much in line with the party line and received corresponding awards. After 1945, Pabst attempted to take a critical look at the Nazi regime. In DER LETZTE AKT (1955), for example, he attempted a portrayal of Adolf Hitler's final days and filmed the Stauffenberg drama ES GESCHAH AM 20. JULI (1955). He was no longer able to build on his successes of the 1920s to 1930s.
Speaker: Dr. Dorothee Höfert, art historian
Dr. Dorothee Höfert uses images, quotes and reviews to create a biographical collage of this classic of film art; duration: approx. 45 minutes.

Afterwards:
DIE FREUDLOSE GASSE

DEU 1925. D: G. W. Pabst. D: Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauß, Valeska Gert. 148 min. silent movie with live music. 35mm projection. FSK: n. A.

DIE FREUDLOSE GASSE was director G.W. Pabst's first great success. The celebrated film with Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen, Valeska Gert and Werner Krauß in the leading roles is considered an important film of socially critical realism and established Pabst's reputation as a master of New Objectivity. In loosely interwoven episodes, the story takes us to Vienna's Melchiorgasse during the years of hunger and inflation after the First World War. Here, losers and winners, prostitutes and profiteers, pimps and speculators meet. Outdated moral concepts and brutal pragmatism confront each other in a magnificent pictorial arc of poverty and waste, sexuality and power, which was permanently abridged and distorted by contemporary censorship for political and moral reasons. Cinema Quadrat is showing the latest reconstructed version!
We are showing the film in analog 35mm projection.
Silent film with live music by Jens Schlichting (piano)
Admission: 20 € regular / 15 € reduced / 13 € members