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  • San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2022

A Sister of Six

Live music by Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius
Director
Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius
Cast
Lydia Potechina, Anna Lisa Ryding, Betty Balfour, Willy Fritsch, Ivan Hedqvist

An international all-star cast graces this madcap concoction of romance and mistaken identity set in Hungary, revolving around two of the Gyurkovics sisters and their suitors outwitting each other on their way to love.

Restoration by the Swedish Film Institute

Special support provided by Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation

Supported by the Honorary Consulate of Sweden

  • 102 min
  • Sweden
  • 1926
  • 35mm
Introduction
Magnus Rosborn

Live Music by Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius

Guenter Buchwald Conductor, composer, pianist, and violinist Guenter Buchwald is a pioneer of the renaissance in silent film music. He has accompanied silent films for thirty-eight years with a repertoire of more than three thousand titles and has conducted orchestras worldwide from Iceland to Romania, Tokyo to Zurich. In great demand as a composer, he has scored silent films as varied as Suzuki and Ota’s What Made Her Do It?, René Clair’s Paris qui dort, Chaplin’s Pawn Shop, and Murnau’s Nosferatu. A soloist known for his virtuoso improvisation, he has appeared regularly at film festivals in Berlin, Bonn, Bologna, Zurich, Pordenone, and Seattle. He is a lecturer at the Film Science Institute at the University of Zurich and resident conductor of the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra for Silent Film in Concert. He is cofounder of the Silent Movie Music Company and is musical director of Bristol’s Slapstick Silent Film Festival in England.

Frank Bockius Versatile percussionist Frank Bockius specializes in jazz and is versed in medieval, flamenco, and Latin music styles. He has performed for dance and theater companies as well as in his own bands, including the jazz quintet Whisper Hot and the percussion ensemble Timpanicks. He joined the Guenter Buchwald’s Silent Movie Music Company twenty years ago and has since performed for silent films at festivals in Kyoto, Pordenone, and Sodankylä, Finland. He made his first appearance at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2014.

Frank Bockius

Image credit: Pamela Gentile

Details

Director
Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius
Country
Sweden
Year
1926
Cast
Lydia Potechina, Anna Lisa Ryding, Betty Balfour, Willy Fritsch, Ivan Hedqvist
Original Language Title
Flickorna Gyurkovics
Runtime
102 min
Print Source
Swedish Film Institute
Format
35mm
Tue, May 10, 2022
12:00 PM
Castro Theatre
$18 general
$16 member
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