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Silent film classic with a new soundtrack
These cinema images are gripping from the very start: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s Faust film is turning 100 years old. The Dutch flutist and drama guru Jed Wentz has created a new soundtrack for the silent film classic – piano pieces from Bach to Scriabin, played live by Olga Pashchenko on a historical grand piano to complement the evocative images. The 1926 film Faust: A German Folk Tale is not an adaptation of Goethe’s play; it goes much further back to the folklore sources of the story. “Good and evil, darkness and light struggle for Faust’s soul. But, as always in Murnau’s best films, the need to forgive forms the true core of the story.” (Jed Wentz)
Programme
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Faust (silent movie, 1926)
(A film from the collection of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden)
Silent movie with live music by Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Alexander Skriabin, Johann Sebastian Bach and Edvard Grieg
Duration: 116 minutes without interval
Tickets
Price: EUR 39
Reductions:
U27 (for all under 27) & Ö1 Intro: 50 % reduction
Ö1 Club & Standard Abo: 10 % reduction
