The Helsinki International Film Festival "Love & Anarchy" invites us again to an interesting film program. The following German films are included:
F.W. Murnau: Nosferatu (1922)
Cinema concert with Lauri Porra & Veli Kujala
This romantic fantasia of evil helped invent a whole vocabulary of thriller storytelling; Hitchcock put it to use for the rest of his life in tales of superficially respectable men who were predatory killers. The lunatic in his cell in Nosferatu, fanatically noticing insects, eventually morphed into Anthony Perkins in Psycho.
Murnau shifted the geographical centre of gravity east in his unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: now it is Germany, not England, where the sinister Count Orlok, that strange fanged sprite played by Max Schreck, aspires to live. Having been quarantined for so long in the trackless Transylvanian forests, he has now made a satanic decision to spread his malaise into the rational, scientific, bourgeois Europe of the 19th century.
Peter Bradshaw,
The Guardian
The atmospheric film, with its wide array of iconic scenes, will be conjured into existence with a fantastic soundtrack, when bassist-composer Lauri Porra from the band Stratovarius along with awarded accordion artist Veli Kujala fearlessly delve into the chilling story, with spellbinding melodies that will get under the audience’s skin.
Text: Otto Kylmälä (translated by Inari Ylinen)
Germany, 1922; Screenplay: Henrik Galeen; Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder; Production: Enrico Dieckmann, Albin Grau / Jofa-Atelier Berlin-Johannisthal, Prana-Film GmbH; Duration: 94 min; Age limit: 0
Screening:
24.09.2020, 18:30, Savoy-teatteri
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Sandra Wollner: The Trouble with Being Born (2020)
Women filmmakers are intrigued by Sci-fi and futuristic films at the moment. Claire Denis and Alice Winocour are exploring Space travel in their films High Life (HIFF 2019) and Proxima (HIFF 2020). Carol Morley is looking into black holes in Out of the Blue and Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Jessica Hausner are scoping out marine regeneration (Evolution, HIFF 2016) and plant development (Little Joe, HIFF 2019).
Meanwhile, Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner explores the future through our preoccupations with loneliness, guilt and loss. Her sinister second feature imagines a future with robot companions in the suburbs of Vienna.
Things have really moved on since blow-up dolls, but the few nude scenes here were all created via VFX with the young actress wearing a special suit suit and a silicone mask and wig, which help conceal her real identity and her likeness to another character who appears later in the film.
The contrast between robots and real characters is eerie but seamlessly realised, creating an extraordinary fantasy feature that scratches at the edges of horror but is firmly underpinned by reality.
Text: Meredith Taylor, Filmuforia
Austria, Germany, 2020; Screenplay: Sandra Wollner, Roderick Warich; Starring: Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard; Production: Lixi Frank, David Bohun / Panama Film; Duration: 94 min; Age limit: 16
Screenings
18.09.2020,18:15 Finnkino Itis 5
19.09.2020,10:45 Kinopalatsi 7 und 21:00 Cinamon Tripla 6
20.09.2020, 20:45 Kino Engel 2
21.09.2020, 20:45 Kinopalatsi 7
22.09.2020, 15:30 Kinopalatsi 7
25.09.2020, 18:45 Kino Engel 1
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