HINTERTREPPE, BERLIN - SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Starring Berlin Series) $5 January 29, 2007

Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
5750 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100
Los Angeles, California 90036

$5
Free for Friends of Goethe Members
Admission is on a first come, first served basis.
Doors open at 6:30, Free parking in the building after 6:00 - please bring your parking stub for validation.


Hintertreppe
Dir. Paul Leni/Leopold Jessner, 1921, 43 min., s/w, Engl. intertiles
A young maid’s fiancée fails to return from a day’s labor. In an attempt to comfort her, the crippled mail man sends her love letters under the fiancées name. When the young bride finds it out, she is deeply touched and falls in love with him.
On the day of their engagement, the former fiancée returns.

With live piano accompaniment by Michael Mortilla


Berlin - Symphony of a great city (Die Sinfonie einer Grossstadt)
Dir. Walter Ruttman, 1929, 62 min. b/w, musical soundtrack
At once an invaluable record of life in Weimar Berlin and a timeless demonstration of the cinema’s ability to enthrall on a purely visceral level, the film offers a kaleidoscopic view of a single day in the bustling metropolis.

The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles celebrates 40 years of Berlin – L.A. Sister-City Relations with this year-long program spanning from rarely seen silents to East- and West- German filmproductions to the cutting-edge films of the last Berlin Filmfestival.

STARRING BERLIN presents key films, not only in a film-historic, but also film-aesthetic context.
Thrillers (M, Angels of Iron), comedies (One ,Two, Three, Run Lola Run), dramas (The Last Laugh, The Downfall) and the occasional documentary (Look at this city) make for a challenging, highly informative and entertaining year of films.

STARRING BERLIN invites the viewer to experience 100 years in the life of Berlin as seen in its films.
The first segment (January through April) covers the periods of post-World War I and Weimar Germany and ends with the first post-World War II film and German anti-war classic Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers are among us).

1/29/2007HINTERTREPPE, BERLIN - SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (DIE SINFONIE EINER GROSSSTADT)
2/5/2007THE LAST LAUGH (DER LETZTE MANN)
2/12/2007ASPHALT
2/20/2007MOTHER KRAUSEN'S JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS (MUTTER KRAUSENS FAHR INS GLUECK)
2/26/2007PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG)
3/5/2007THE BLUE ANGEL (DER BLAUE ENGEL)
3/12/2007M (EINE STADT SUCHT EINEN MÖRDER)
4/2/2007KUHLE WAMPE
4/10/2007OLYMPIA - FEST DER VOELKER (OLYMPIAD)
4/16/2007UNTER DEN BRUECKEN
4/23/2007DER UNTERGANG
4/30/2007DIE MÖRDER SIND UNTER UNS (THE MURDERERS ARE AMONG US)
5/7/2007DEUTSCHLAND IM JAHRE NULL (GERMANIA ANNO ZERO)
5/14/2007EINS, ZWEI, DREI (ONE, TWO, THREE)
5/21/2007BERLIN - ECKE SCHOENHAUSER
5/29/2007SCHAUT AUF DIESE STADT (LOOK AT THIS CITY)
6/4/2007DIE LEGENDE VON PAUL UND PAULA
6/11/2007ENGEL AUS EISEN (ANGELS OF IRON)
6/18/2007NACHREDE AUF KLARA HEIDEBRECK
6/25/2007DER TUNNEL (THE TUNNEL)
7/2/2007SONNENALLEE (SUN ALLEY)
7/9/2007DIE MAUER (THE WALL)
7/16/2007DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN
8/20/2007COMING OUT
8/27/2007IN WEITER FERNE SO NAH (FAR AWAY SO CLOSE)
9/4/2007DAS LEBEN IST EINE BAUSTELLE (LIFE IS ALL YOU GET)
9/10/2007LOLA RENNT (RUN LOLA RUN)
9/17/2007PLUS MINUS NULL (BREAK EVEN)
9/24/2007NACHTGESTALTEN (NIGHT SHAPES)
10/1/2007WEGE IN DIE NACHT (PATHS INTO THE NIGHT)
10/8/2007LOLA UND BILIDIKID
10/15/2007EMIL UND DIE DETEKTIVE
10/22/2007BERLIN IS IN GERMANY
10/29/2007GOOD BYE LENIN!
11/5/2007HERR LEHMANN
11/12/2007DIE FETTEN JAHREN SIND VORBEI (THE EDUKATORS)
11/19/2007GESPENSTER (GHOSTS)
11/26/2007SOMMER VORM BALKON (SUMMER IN BERLIN)
12/3/2007KNALLHART (TOUGH ENOUGH)

Official Website: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/los/kue/en2018748.htm

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