Pigs Will Be Pigs
Live music by Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius
Long thought lost, this trenchant comedy was rediscovered in Germany and repatriated to Ukraine. Ivan Kozlenko, former director of the Dovzhenko National Archive in Kyiv, wrote: “Comedies … broadcasting all the flaws of the Soviet totalitarian system … were the first to be banned and often never even made it to the screen.” Welcome back, Pigs Will Be Pigs!
Source Information:
Film scholar and director of the George Eastman Museum Peter Bagrov discovered a print of the film in the Bundesarchiv in Berlin.. The director of the Bundesarchiv contacted Ivan Kozlenko, the director of the Oleksander Dovzhenko National Film Archive in Kyiv in February 2015 with the offer to transfer the reels of film, both positive and negative prints, in Bundesarchiv’s collection to Ukraine.
Live music by Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius
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. He made his first appearance at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2013. For Pigs Will Be Pigs, Guenter will be joined by Frank Bockius on percussion.
Details
Original Language Title
Stantsiya Pupky
Country
Ukraine
Director
Khanan Shmain
Year
1931
Cast
Konstantin Garin, Ivan Tverdokhlib, Borys Bezhin
Runtime
60 min
Source
Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Archive, Kyiv
Format
DCP