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The Tiger Lillies Play Live Tonight The Musical
Score They Created For The World Premiere
Of The Digitally Restored Silent Era German
Film Varieté Directed By E. A. Dupont

Warwick Ward and Lya de Putti in Varieté by E. A. Dupont
 
Illustrating the wealth of cinematic classics from the German film industry, during the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Classics presents new digital versions of three German films Varieté, Jahrgang 45, and 9 Leben hat die Katze. Rainer Rother, head of the Retrospective and artistic director of the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, says: "Two of the films we will be showing were processed as part of the BKM's (the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media's) offensive to digitise films, which is very pleasing .

The Berlinale Classics series kicks off today with Varieté. The restored version presents the almost complete cut of the film for the first time. Modern day group The Tiger Lillies will provide the live accompaniment to the world premiere of the digitally restored version. Martyn Jacques, artistic director of the band Tiger Lillies, has composed a new score for the film. He commented: "For us the music we have made is very much from the heart. It is our circus music for a wonderful film." The digitally restored version was realised in cooperation with the film production and distribution company NFP*. Varieté screens 19:00 Haus der Berliner Festspiele (E), Music: Tiger Lillies (live).
 

Leben hat die Katze (The Cat Has Nine Lives)
 
Varieté (1925) by director E. A. Dupont, a German film classic from the silent film era, is a crime of passion story set in the circus milieu. The leading star Emil Jannings, was later to become the world’s first winner of an Oscar. Restored during 2014/15 by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, in collaboration with the Filmarchiv Austria, the only materials available were the nitrate print from the Library of Congress in Washington and a nitrate print from the Filmarchiv Austria.

In Jahrgang 45 (Born in '45), director Jürgen Böttcher takes a look at lives of young people in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the 1960s. It is the only fictional film made by this documentary filmmaker, and was the last and most notorious in what became known as the DEFA "Plenum films". The 11th Plenum of the Central Committee of the SED (United Socialist Party of Germany), which in 2015 was established 50 years ago, led to the most far-reaching ban on film in the history of German cinema: In 1965/66 twelve fictional DEFA features were banned, almost an entire year's production. Work on Jahrgang 45 was halted in 1966, somewhere between the rough and final cut of the film, and shelved. It was first screened in 1990, but it was not until after its showing that the film was completed based on the original negative; and the sound had to be resynchronised afterwards. Director of photography Roland Graf has contributed significantly to the digital restoration, which began in 2014 and concluded in 2015 by the DEFA Foundation in a 4K workflow.
 

Jahrgang 45 (Born in '45)
 
In 1968, in her debut fictional feature, 9 Leben hat die Katze (The Cat Has Nine Lives), Ula Stöckl captured the attention of the international film world, and the film participated in many film festivals. The Cat Has Nine Lives revolves around five women and focuses on the question of whether, and to what extent, the emancipation of women can succeed in a male dominated society. It is considered a landmark work of feminist cinema in Germany. Originally shot in Techniscope and printed in Technicolor's dye transfer process, the film has been digitally restored based on the original negative by the Deutsche Kinemathek. A Technicolor print preserved by the Munich Film Museum served as reference for the digital colour grading.

Special event: Berlinale Classics: Digitising Film Heritage in the Future –Thursday, Feb 12, 2015, 6.00 pm, Deutsche Kinemathek, Event Room, 4th floor, panel discussion with Claudia Dillmann, Ralf Schenk, Ernst Szebedits and Rainer Rother.
 
 


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