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Silent Film Concert “Das Mädchen mit der Hutschachtel”
27. February 2021 @ 20:00 - 21:30
Sat. 27.02.2021
8:00 PM
Film Museum Düsseldorf
Info
Short and Sweet :
Original Title: Девушка с коробкой / Dewuschka s korobkoi
Soviet Union 1927
Director: Boris Barnet
Duration: approx. 70 minutes
Action:
The young Natascha, who lives with her grandfather in a modest, almost impoverished hut near Moscow, is employed in Madame Irène’s hat shop during the time of the so-called New Economic Plan. This was when the Soviet leadership made small concessions to private initiatives and the private economy. Natascha’s boss and her husband have falsely informed the housing committee that Natascha has rented a room in their house. This little white lie allows Irène’s husband to finally have a room to himself, where he can laze around as he pleases. Fogeljew, who works for the state railway, has been in love with Natascha for a long time. However, she has set her sights on Ilja, the young, homeless student she met on a train journey…
About the Film:
“The Girl with the Hatbox” is one of the rare examples of a Soviet silent film comedy. The film, directed by Boris Barnet in the winter of 1926/1927, made lead actress Anna Stern, in the title role, the most famous female film star of late Soviet silent cinema. Even today, the film remains fresh and lively, cleverly incorporating elements of the “slapstick comedies” that were known at the time, especially from Hollywood, and were also popular in Russia.
Musical Score:
New music version by Wilfried Kaets for historical cinema organ and simultaneous piano.
Wilfried Kaets, with over 30 years of experience, is one of the most seasoned silent film accompanists in Germany. For “The Girl with the Hatbox”, he creates a kind of “cine-historical silent film music” using forms and sounds that, played on a Welte cinema organ and a simultaneously played piano, would have sounded as they might have in a cinema in 1927.