The famous, avant-garde and at the same time idealizing silent film of the Russian master director duo Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg from 1929 comes from the phase of revolutionary romanticism of the young Soviet Union. The film uses the suppression of the Paris Commune after the lost war of 1870/71 against the German troops as a backdrop for its plot. Trauberg's and Kozintsev's montage eschews a continuous narrative line in favor of associative contrasts. The pleasure-seeking bourgeoisie is juxtaposed with scenes of the hard-working people. The department store becomes the symbol of a world in which everything is for sale. Shostakovich's film music – it is his first film composition ever – bristles with ironic-grotesque play, with combination of and confrontation with old familiar forms, melodies and genre quotations such as march and waltz. Whereby the modern realization clearly sets itself apart from the cinema clichés that were common already at that time. Instead of emphasized subjective emotionality, striking mirroring and whimsical parody create a distance to what is shown. The result is a powerful music of unusual structure, which reflects the conflicts of the film plot in an original and unconventional way.

FILMPHILHARMONIC EDITION
Film with permission of ZDF/ARTE & the EUROPEAN
FILMPHILHARMONIC
Music with permission of Sikorski Musikverlage

Duration: 90 minutes

Tickets: 34,– | 28,– | 22,– €

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