An anniversary rarely comes alone: The Munich Film Museum is turning 60 and is showing two 100-year-old silent films in its anniversary program. Karl Grune’s “The Street. The Film of a Night” premiered in November 1923: It tells the story of a man who wants to escape the bourgeois squalor and plunges into a nighttime adventure – including gamblers, prostitutes and criminals. The production design was designed by the expressionist painter Ludwig Meidner, and the film museum will show a newly restored version with live musical accompaniment on Thursday, November 30th, 7 p.m.
“Raskolnikov,” based on Fedor Dostoyevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment,” is also 100 years old. Robert Wiene worked in this expressionist feature film with actors from the Moscow Art Theater; the Film Museum reconstructed it over several years. The film can be seen on Sunday, December 3rd, 5 p.m. There will also be live musical accompaniment here.
“The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eisenstein” is a new film essay by Mark Rappaport (whose complete works are archived at the Film Museum); It will celebrate its premiere on Friday, December 1st, 6 p.m. Orson Welles’ 1957 film “Portrait of Gina” (about Gina Lollobrigida) will also be shown that evening. The next day, on December 2nd, at 6 p.m., Alexander Kluge will be a guest: A workshop discussion with the film museum director Stefan Drößler will be about the history and future of cinema. The title of the event is: “Phoenix Cinema – Mole Tunnel to Film History”.