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  • San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2024

The Street

Live music by Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius
Director
Karl Grune
Cast
Eugen Klöpfer, Aud Egede, Leonhard Haskel, Hans Trautner, Max Schreck

The film that lent its name to an entire German genre is Karl Grune’s landmark contribution to cinema’s decoupling from stage-bound drama. An Expressionist-style city built entirely in the studio becomes the setting for a grim warning about succumbing to temptations of the urban night, and the first Strassenfilm. Watch for Nosferatu’s Max Schreck in an allegorical subplot about a blind man who loses track of a young child on these same perilous streets.

  • 79 min.
  • Germany
  • 1923
  • DCP
Introduction
Pamela Hutchinson
Special Support
Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts
Copresenters
Berlin & Beyond, Film Noir Foundation

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.

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 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.

Details

Original Language Title
Die Strasse
Country
Germany
Year
1923
Director
Karl Grune
Cast
Eugen Klöpfer, Aud Egede, Leonhard Haskel, Hans Trautner, Max Schreck
Runtime
79 min.
Source
Munich Film Archive
Format
DCP
Sat, Apr 13, 2024
5:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
$20 general
$18 member
12 and under, free
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