Germany / 1921 / 98 min

Director : Fritz Lang

Live accompany by Niel Brand 

Thursday 8 at 19.30 p.m. at Scala

 

An early Fritz Lang’s silent film that portrait his ambitious in which create crucial influence on many major filmmakers. The film tells the story of a young girl who must face Death to plead for the life of her deceased lover. Death confronts the young girl with a condition which she must fulfill if she wishes to be reunited with her lover. He tells her three stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to her own. She must save the life of at least one of the characters in the stories in order to be with her lover again. 

 

Ukraine/1929/93 min

Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Live Accompany by Gandhi Wasuvitchayagit 

Friday 9 June at 18.15 p.m. at Lido

Saturday 10 June at 17.00 p.m. at Lido

 

The most complicated by structure of Dovzhenko’s silent trilogy made him famous not only in the USSR, but also in Europe and North America. In Arsenal Dovzhenko focuses on the end of the WW I, civil war in Ukraine and Bolshevik`s unsuccessful uprising in January 1918 in Kyiv. In Soviet mythology the uprising at the Arsenal factory is one of the midpoints of Bolshevik`s martyrdom in Ukraine. Dovzhenko created historical epic which became canonical for intellectuals on both sides of the barricades 

 

USA /1920 / 80 min

Director: Fred Niblo

Live Accompany by Neil Brand

Friday 9 June at 20.15 p.m. at Lido

Sunday 11 June at 12.00 p.m. at Lido

 

The well-known film of Douglas Fairbank, a great Hollywood silent film star. This film is the first version of The Mark of Zorro, the swashbuckling story of a nineteenth century Robin Hood. Don Diego Vega must assume the masked identity of Zorro, to convince the caballeros to join him in a quest to save his beloved San Juan Capistrano from the evil governor and his lecherous captain.

 

UK/1928/94 min

Director: Anthony Asquith

Live Accompany by Neil Brand

Saturday 10 June at 12 p.m. at Lido

Sunday 11 June at 19.30 p.m. at Lido

 

Anthony Asquith’s Underground, a subterranean tale of love, jealousy and murder, evokes the daily life of the average Londoner better than any other film in Britain’s silent canon. From his own screenplay Asquith balances the light and dark sides of city life. The story tells Bert, an electrician, and Bill, a London Underground porter both fall in love with shop worker Nell. But when Nell chooses Bill, Bert resorts to devious tactics.

UK/1929/94 min

Director: Arthur Robinson

Live Accompany by Neil Brand

Saturday 10 June at 19.30 p.m. at Lido

Tuesday 13 June at 18.15 p.m. at Lido

 

The 1929 adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer has all the hallmarks of a classic film noir, just a decade too early and an ocean away. The action begins when a group of revolutionaries from an unnamed group are meeting undercover in a working-class district unknowingly observed by the police. During the ensuing raid the chief of police is shot and killed by Francis, who is forced to flee in order to preserve the group’s secrecy. When he returns to say goodbye to his mother he goes to see his former lover and co-revolutionary, Kate. When he discovers that she appears to have taken up with another of their comrades, the scene is set for betrayal and tragedy.

 

 

USA/ 1924 / 15 min

Director: Herman C. Raymaker

Live Benshi by Ichiro Kataoka and piano by Ayumi Kamiya 

Sunday 11 June at 17.00 p.m. at Lido

Tuesday 13 June at 20.15 p.m. at Lido

 

Our Pet tell the story of little girl Baby Peggy who warding off thieves. This short film is one of the titles from 1920s silent film series “Baby Peggy” that played by Diana Serra Cary, the last living silent film star. She was the one of the three major American child stars of the Hollywood silent movie era along with Jackie Coogan and Baby Marie. Most of Cary"s “Baby Peggy” films including Our Pet had been lost when the Century Studios burned down in 1926. In September 2016, Japanese silent film narrator (Benshi) and silent film collector Ichiro Kataoka discovered the 9.5 mm print of this long lost film in Japan and brought it back to the screen with his Benshi performance.

 

Japan / 1926 / 54 min

Director: Tomiyasu Ikeda

Live Benshi by Ichiro Kataoka and piano by Ayumi Kamiya 

Sunday 11 June at 17.00 p.m. at Lido

Tuesday 13 June at 20.15 p.m. at Lido

 

Chushingura is a famous story of revenge known to every Japanese. This epic 1926 film starred Onoe Matsunosuke Onoe, Japan’s first movie star. The film tells story of Takuminokami Asano, the lord of the Ako Domain, loses patience after being repeatedly insulted by Kozukenosuke Kira and stabs him in the corridor of the Edo Castle. For this, Takuminokami is ordered to commit harakiri (suicide by disembowelment) and the Asano family is discontinued. But the samurai retainers of the Asano family quietly wait for an opportunity to avenge their deceased lord.

 

USA/1925/76 

Director: Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer

Live Benshi by Ichiro Kataoka and piano by Ayumi Kamiya 

Monday 12 June at 18.15 p.m. at Lido

Wednesday 14 June at 20.15 p.m. at Lido

 

Harold Lloyd’s most popular comedy is arguably his funniest film. It was also his most commercially successful silent comedy feature. Harold plays college freshman Harold Lamb who longs to be the Big Man on Campus. His metamorphous from college zero to college hero in the climactic football game is one of the high points of silent film comedy.

 

Germany / 1926 / 116 min

Director : F.W. Murnau

Live Accompany by Christopher Jangwong McKiggan 

Monday 12 June at 20.15 p.m. at Lido

Wednesday 14 June at 18.15 p.m. at Lido

 

Faust is F.W. Murnau"s last German film, and directly afterward he moved to the US under contract to William Fox to direct Sunrise (1927). The film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe"s classic version. The story begins when The demon Mephisto has a bet with an Archangel that he can corrupt a righteous man"s soul and destroy in him what is divine. If he succeeds, the Devil will win dominion over earth.