Description
A great fresco painted with lights and shadows… Never before or since was there such an
exultant flight of the cinema spirit. — Herman G. Weinberg, Cinemages
Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.
Director:
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
The film will be screened with live music performed by Denis Ringo, Ksyusha Buraya, and Andrei Figa.
Denis “Ringo” Sladkevich
A composer and multi-instrumentalist; he has written music for several documentaries. As a session and studio musician he has worked with many St. Petersburg and Moscow artists. An active member of Volkovtrio and of the band Skazy.
Ksyusha Buraya
An ambient composer and sound researcher from St. Petersburg. In her projects she explores states of calm and contemplation through sound, improvisation, and practices of deep listening.
Andrei Figa
A singer-songwriter, leader of the folk-punk band Skazy, participant in many musical experiments; he devised the style “noise-folk.” His music has been used in theatre productions and in animation.