Thu 15.10.
19:00
Director
Ivan Mosjoukine
France / 1923
106 min.
/ 35 mm
/ French Intertitles and English subtitles
with
Ivan Mosjoukine
Original language
Silent
Restored print of the Cinémathèque française; Restoration made in 2010 from original print from Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique and original negative from collections of La Cinémathèque française
Cinema
Arsenal
zu dem KalenderOn the piano: Eunice Martins
The directorial work of one of the great stars of the silent era, a "tour de force blend of surrealism, Freud and Dada," (Jay Weissberg), is peppered with unusual gags and experiments, has a wild motley plot, and eccentric set design. Mosjoukine plays a detective known as "Z", who is hired by the jealous husband of a married woman visited by Z himself in her dreams after reading his memoirs. "One day at the Colisée cinema, I saw LE BRASIER ARDENT," Jean Renoir later recalled. "The audience was shouting and whistling, shocked by a spectacle so different from their usual fare. I was delighted. I decided to abandon my trade, ceramics, to try to make films."
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