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The UFA Film Nights 2018 1
Ber telsmann and UFA presents
August 22 to 24, 2018
In the Kolonnadenhof on Museum Island
Presented by
The UFA Film Nights 2018 2
Table of contents
Introduction 3
Schedule 4
The Movies
Der Geiger von Florenz – The Fiddler of Florence (1925/1926) 5
Sumurun (1920) 6
Die Apachen von Paris – Apaches of Paris (1927) 7
The Musicians 8
The Venue 11
About UFA 12
About Bertelsmann 13
Press Enquiries 14
Partners 15
The UFA Film Nights 2018 3 Introduction Bertelsmann and UFA present the UFA Film Nights in Berlin for the eighth time from August 22 to 24, 2018: on three evenings, early masterpieces of cinema history will be screened under the stars, against a spectacular backdrop and accompanied by live music. The UFA Film Nights have become a cinematic-musical highlight of Berlin’s cultural summer with a dedicated stage orchestra and big screen erected for the occasion in the Kolonnadenhof (Colonnade Courtyard) on Museum Island, a World Cultural Heritage site. Bertelsmann and UFA thus continue their tradition of presenting out- standing feats of cinematography in a historic architectural setting. This year, nearly 1,000 guests are expected for each of the evenings. Following a reception at Bertelsmann Unter den Linden 1, Berlin, the UFA Film Nights open on Wednesday, August 22 with a world premiere. On show is Paul Czinner‘s The Fiddler of Florence, a romantic adventure about a young woman who disguises herself as a man and travels to Italy, where she models for a painter. The film, which was produced almost a hundred years ago by the then Ufa and until recently was only available in an abridged version, was digitally restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in recent months with financial support from Bertelsmann. A complete version will now be presented to the public, for the first time in all its newly restored splendor. At the world premiere, the I solisti di Francoforte ensemble will play a newly composed score by Uwe Dierksen, commissioned by ZDF/ARTE. ARTE will broadcast the restored silent film with new music on September 24, 2018. This is followed on Thursday by Ernst Lubitsch‘s oriental fairy-tale Sumurun starring the great Pola Negri in the title role of a seductive dancer who turns the heads of a sheikh and his son alike. The music for the film is played by the Ensemble Trioglyze- rin using Western as well as Oriental instruments. On Friday evening, Nikolai Malikoff‘s Apaches of Paris is on the program, in which American puritans on a moralizing mission in the entertainment districts of Paris find themselves exposed to all kinds of temptations. The music is provided by the inter- nationally renowned Dutch composer and pianist Maud Nelissen and her band The Sprockets, also with a new composition in the style of the 1920s. All three films will once again be introduced by prominent film “patrons.” The UFA Film Nights hosted by Bertelsmann und UFA are internationally popular as well. Much to the delight of cineastes, several UFA Film Nights have already been held in Brussels, Madrid, Paris and New York.
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Program
8/22 Wednesday, August 22, 2018, Doors open: 8:30 p.m., Screening starts: 9:00 p.m.
Der Geiger von Florenz – The Fiddler of Florence (1925/26), Director: Paul Czinner.
With Elisabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt, Nora Gregor, Grete Mosheim
Production: Ufa, Length: approx. 90 min.
Music: New composition by Uwe Dierksen, commissioned by ZDF/ARTE. The I solisti di
Francoforte ensemble will perform the musical accompaniment.
8/23 Thursday, August 23, 2018, Doors open: 8:30 p.m., Screening starts: 9:00 p.m.
Sumurun (1920), Director: Ernst Lubitsch.
With Pola Negri, Jenny Hasselqvist, Paul Wegener, Harry Liedtke, Ernst Lubitsch
Production: Pagu (Ufa), Length: 103 min.
Music: New composition by Trioglyzerin
8/24 Friday, August 24, 2018, Doors open: 8:30 p.m. – Screening starts: 9:00 p.m.
Die Apachen von Paris – Apaches of Paris (1927), Director: Nikolai Malikoff.
With Jaque Catelain, Lia Eibenschütz, Olga Limburg
Production: Alliance Cinématografique (for Ufa), Length: 108 min.
Music: New composition by Maud Nelissen. Performed by:
Maud Nelissen & The Sprockets
Tickets for the UFA Film Nights are now available for 15 EUR including
advance booking charge:
Online www.ufa-filmnaechte.de oder www.ticketmaster.de
Or by calling 01806 999 0000 (0.20 €/call from German landlines / max. 0.60 €/
call from German mobiles)
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The movies
Der Geiger von Florenz – The Fiddler of Florence
8/22 (1925/26)
Director Paul Czinner
Production Erich Pommer (for Ufa)
Screenplay Paul Czinner
Cinematography Otto Kanturek, Adolf
Schlasy, Arpad Viragh
Cast Elisabeth Bergner, Conrad
Veidt, Nora Gregor,
Grete Mosheim
Length approx. 90 min
As deeply as Renée (Elisabeth Bergner) loves her father, she and her stepmother
cannot stand each other. At the latter’s instigation, Renée ends up being sent away
to a strict Swiss boarding school. She‘s even made to spend the holidays there as
punishment for her bad behavior. Disguised in men‘s clothing, Renée flees to Italy,
where she manages to earn a little money as a street musician. A well-known painter
discovers the “boy” and paints his portrait for a new painting entitled “The Fiddler
of Florence.” The work becomes a huge success. On a photograph of the painting,
Renée’s father recognizes his daughter, whom he had thought to be lost. He travels
to Florence to retrieve Renée. But the painter no longer wants to part with his com-
panion, and is delighted when “he” turns out to be a girl who has long since fallen in
love with him...
Elisabeth Bergner (1897-1986) is regarded as one of the most important actresses of
the 20th century. After triumphant stage successes in Berlin in the early 1920s, she
began working for the cinema and acted in a series of films directed by her later hus-
band Paul Czinner, in which she repeatedly played male roles, to which Bergner’s an-
drogynous looks leant themselves well. Because of their Jewish origins, Bergner and
Czinner emigrated to England in 1933, and were able to continue their careers there.
Music
The I solisti di Francoforte ensemble performs music newly composed by Uwe Dierksen,
commissioned by ZDF/ARTE.
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The movies
Sumurun
8/23 (1920)
Director Ernst Lubitsch
Production Pagu (Ufa)
Screenplay Hans Kräly & Ernst
Lubitsch
Cinematography Karl Freund
Producer Erich Pommer
Cast Pola Negri, Jenny Hassel-
qvist, Paul Wegener, Harry
Liedtke, Ernst Lubitsch
Length 103 min
The harem lady Sumurun (Jenny Hasselqvist) is so beautiful that the old sheik (Paul
Wegener) has declared her his favorite wife. Sumurun, however, loves the young
cloth merchant Nur-al-Din (Harry Liedtke) and fears the jealousy of the old ruler.
To make matters worse, the sheikh learns that his son (Carl Clewing) is also in love
with Sumurun, and threatens to kill them both. One day Abdullah, a hunchbacked
juggler (Ernst Lubitsch) comes into the harem with a seductive dancer (Pola Negri).
She helps both the son and the father get over their renegade playmate, but lusts
for power and money. In vain, the clown Abdullah courts her favor. When the sheikh
surprises the dancer making love with his son, he strangles her and strikes down the
son in fury. When he goes on to discover the young cloth merchant with Sumurun in
the women‘s quarters, he wants to kill Nur-al-Din as well, and a dramatic showdown
ensues.
Ernst Lubitsch, a legendary director of Hollywood cinema classics, began his career
as an actor at the Volksbühne in his native Berlin, where he directed short comedy
films even before the outbreak of World War I. Lubitsch achieved his international
breakthrough with the historical drama “Madame Dubarry” (1919). “Sumurun” was
created in equally elaborate, this time exotic settings that were reproduced in the Ufa
studios in Berlin-Tempelhof. The film whisks its viewers away into a world of Arabian
Nights and shows Lubitsch as dramatist and in his final role as an actor, before he
moved behind the camera for good, eventually becoming the inventor of sublime
erotic comedies.
Music
Trioglyzerin with a new composition
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The movies
Die Apachen von Paris – Apaches of Paris
8/24 (1927)
Director Nikolai Malikoff
Production Alliance Cinématografique
(Ufa)
Screenplay Thea von Harbou,
Fritz Lang
Cinematography Karl Freund, Günther Rittau
Cast Jaque Catelain, Lia
Eibenschütz, Olga Limburg
Length 108 min
The American “Non-Profit Society for the Reconstruction of Europe” sends some
of its leading members to Paris to teach decency and morals to petty criminals and
other members of the demimonde (known as the “Apaches of Paris”). Among the
members of this moral mission are Miss Gertrud (Olga Limburg), the sister of the
association’s president, his beautiful daughter Winnie (Lia Eibenschütz), and the se-
cretary of the society, John Rumple (Nikolai Malikoff). The group‘s most dangerous
enemy is alcohol, which, unlike at home, flows abundantly here. The self-appointed
moralists quickly succumb to the charms of alcohol, which is outlawed in the U.S.
due to Prohibition, and to the other vices of Paris nightlife: Secretary Rumple can’t
get enough of a certain special “fizzy water,” and at the Moulin Rouge, Winnie meets
the dashingly handsome Henri (Jaque Catelain), petty criminal who comes from “a
good family” and has an eye on her jewelry. However, in the course of his efforts
to purloin them, he falls in love with his victim. This causes him to quarrel with his
jealous girlfriend and fall out with his gang, especially with his former buddy Bécot,
who in turn has his eye on Winnie’s jewels.
A German-French co-production between Ufa and ACE shot at original locations in
Paris, Nikolai Malikoff‘s lively comedy shows the picturesque milieu of the dives and
dance bars around Montmartre. A comedy about culture clash, double standards,
hypocrisy and their unmasking.
Music
Maud Nelissen (NL) and the ensemble “The Sprockets“The UFA Film Nights 2018 8
The Musicians
8/22 Uwe Dierksen
Uwe Dierksen studied trombone in Hanover,
Hamburg and London, and conducting at
the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since 1983, he
has been trombonist in the Ensemble Mo-
dern (an ensemble of soloists for contempo-
rary music) and has worked with renowned
musicians, composers and conductors du-
ring this time. Numerous compositions have
been written for him and were premiered by
him. He has recorded over 20 CDs, roughly
a third of them as a soloist.
As an internationally performing soloist, he has played with the Austrian Symphony
Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the West German Symphony
Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet, the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, the Dutch Radio Or-
chestra, the Lisbon Concert Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and many
others.
He is also frequently commissioned by ZDF, ARTE and the F.W. Murnau Foundation
to write film music, including for the silent movies “Der Turm des Schweigens” (The
Tower of Silence, 1924) by Dr. Johann Guter, “Die Pest in Florenz” (The Plague of
Florence, 1919) by Otto Rippert, “Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari” (The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, 1920) by Robert Wiene, and the Asta Nielsen film “Zapatas Bande” (Zapata’s
Gang, 1914) by Urban Gad. He was artistic director and composer of the silent film
revue evening “Welcome to American Vaudeville” in 2015 at the Komische Oper Ber-
lin, and an evening under the same heading in February 2017 at the Oper Frankfurt.
His radio play “Irres Licht” with Christian Brückner, Judith Rosmair and Franziska
Junge, produced by SWR, was broadcast on SWR 2 in January 2014 and subse-
quently on hr and Deutschlandfunk, and performed as a live version at the literaturm
Festival in Frankfurt in 2016.
The ZDF/ARTE film department commissioned the music for “The Fiddler of Floren-
ce.” Since 1995, ARTE has hosted its Stummfilm-Rendezvous series showcasing
classics and rarities of international cinematic history. All films are shown in their
latest restorations, which provides significant support to film archives in their acti-
vities. Another focus is the reconstruction of original film scores from the silent film
period. The ZDF/ARTE film department has had more than 15 original music scores
restored and performed to date; these reconstructions – including “Der Rosenkava-
lier” (Richard Strauss, 1926), “October” (Edmund Meisel, 1928) and “Der Student von
Prag” (Josef Weiß, 1913) – are an important contribution to the preservation of the
film music culture of the early 20th century.The UFA Film Nights 2018 9
The Musicians
8/23 Trioglyzerin
In 1992 the musicians Ulrich van der Schoor,
Kristoff Becker and Tobias Becker joined for-
ces under the name Trioglyzerin to set silent
films to music live. They do not only want to
revive the cinema atmosphere of that time.
Rather, the joint use of traditional and elec-
tronic instruments is intended to create an
effective connection between classic and
modern.
Trioglyzerin has made a name for herself
through numerous appearances at home
and abroad. The musicians‘ many years of experience with a wide variety of music
contributes to the fact that every single film has its own, appropriate musical illust-
ration.
The three musicians who make up Trioglyzerin already accompanied Fritz Lang‘s
“Spies” at the 2012 UFA Film Nights, and their music was heard during “Geheimnisse
des Orients” (Secrets of the Orient) at the 2013 UFA Film Nights. In 2015 they per-
formed the musical accompaniment to Lotte Reiniger‘s “Die Abenteuer des Prinzen
Achmed” (The Adventures of Prince Achmed), and in 2016 Trioglyzerin and the Jazz-
Combo of the Deutsche Oper Berlin opened the UFA Film Nights with their music for
“Die Bergkatze” (The Wildcat). This year, Trioglyzerin will present their new composi-
tion of the score for Ernst Lubitsch‘s “Sumurun”.The UFA Film Nights 2018 10
The Musicians
8/24 Maud Nelissen & The Sprockets
Maud Nelissen is one of the most interna-
tionally renowned female silent film musici-
ans of our time. After training as a classi-
cal concert pianist at the Utrecht Superior
School of Music with Herman Uhlhorn and
graduating with honors, she discovered her
passion for silent film, and has since built a
successful career on this.
In addition to solo performances, Nelissen
composes and arranges musical accompa-
niment for silent films for orchestra and vari-
ous ensembles. Her most famous works include the music for King Vidor‘s silent film
“The Patsy” (1925) with Marion Davies, and the music for Erich von Stroheim‘s “The
Merry Widow” (1925) – based on Franz Léhar‘s eponymous operetta.
Maud Nelissen is the bandleader of the silent film ensemble “The Sprockets,” whose
enthusiasm and virtuosity inspire silent film fans worldwide.
In addition to her work with “The Sprockets,” Nelissen performs with other ensemb-
les and orchestras such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro
Comunale di Bologna, and the Cello8ctet Amsterdam. She made her U.S. debut at
the 2008 Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, followed by a highly acclaimed appea-
rance at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood (2011).
Nelissen has most recently appeared at prominent silent film festivals and venues
including the Berlin International Film Festival, the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt/M., the
Komische Oper Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Il Cinema Ritrovato Bologna, Filmpodi-
um Zürich, Musée d‘Orsay Paris, the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Finland, the Silent
Film Festival in San Francisco, and the Bangkok Silent Film Festival.The UFA Film Nights 2018 11 About the venue Museum Island in the heart of Berlin attracts many visitors from all over the world. Here lies the cradle of today‘s Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which display their outs- tanding collections spanning millennia of art and cultural history in Europe and the Mediterranean region, in this incomparable assembly of buildings. In 1999, UNESCO added Berlin’s Museum Island to its list of World Heritage Sites, calling it “a unique ensemble of museum buildings, which illustrates the evolution of modern museum design over more than a century“. The beginnings of Berlin’s Museum Island were closely linked to the early 19th-centu- ry ideals of the Enlightenment and Humanist. Great architects such as Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Friedrich August Stüler played a key role in the architectural design of the Spreeinsel, which is also the historical starting point and the city center of Berlin. To this day, their masterpieces of Classicistic architecture give Museum Island its unmistakable appearance. With the opening of today‘s Altes Museum in 1830 under Friedrich Wilhelm IV, Museum Island Berlin began its development, into a “sanctuary for art and science.” The Neues Museum was the next to be built (1843-1855), follo- wed by the (Alte) Nationalgalerie (1867-1876), the Bode-Museum (known as Kaiser Friedrich Museum from 1897-1904), and the Pergamonmuseum (1910-1930). The Kolonnadenhof forms the central courtyard of Museum Island, surrounded by the buildings of the Neues Museum, the Pergamonmuseum, the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Kolonnadengänge (colonnade corridors). The original design of the landsca- ping dates from 1880. The layout and motifs of the historical design have been taken up in the current version and gently modernized. This site, steeped in cultural history, has served as the perfect venue for the UFA Film Nights since 2014.
The UFA Film Nights 2018 12 About UFA In 2017, UFA celebrated its 100th anniversary, which makes it one of the oldest enter- tainment brands in the world. Today‘s UFA is a powerful creator of entertainment content, and has steadily expanded its market leadership as a film and television pro- ducer in Germany over the years. Each day, UFA programs entertain and inspire mil- lions of viewers. The company has evolved from a creator of programs and TV pro- ducer into a content specialist for every type of platform – for all major broadcasters in Germany as well as for many other partners. UFA is the umbrella for all German production activities of FremantleMedia, which operates the worldwide production business of Bertelsmann-owned RTL Group The UFA FICTION, UFA SERIAL DRAMA and UFA SHOW & FACTUAL production units as well as the UFA LAB operate under the UFA umbrella. Their extensive pro- duct portfolio offers an unparalleled variety of complementary programs. The UFA LAB pools the group’s digital activities. High-quality fiction productions such as TV movies, series, series and TV events are realized by UFA FICTION. UFA SHOW & FACTUAL produces journalistic formats, reality programs, and shows, as well as a wide range of variety and game shows, quizzes, panel shows, and dating, comedy and music shows. UFA SERIAL DRAMA is a leading supplier of industrial serial pro- ductions. Long-running program brands are at the heart of the product strategy for the group’s core business, the production of TV content. With currently more than 20 serial program brands, the UFA has more long-running formats in the market than any other producer. While UFA sets and develops trends with its programs, it is also committed to time-honored ideas and traditions. Its impressive track record is evident in stellar ratings for miniseries, shows and long-running series such as “SOKO München,” “SOKO Leipzig,” “GZSZ,” “Alles was zählt,” “Unter Uns,” “Ein starkes Team,” “Donna Leon,” “Wer weiß denn sowas” and “Sag die Wahrheit.” Outstanding high-end drama series, event-scale TV movies, and feature films such as “Generation War,” “Ku‘damm 56/59,” “Charité,” “Deutschland 83/86,” “Born- holmer Strasse,” “Nackt unter Wölfen,” and “Der Turm”; and box-office movies like “Hanni & Nanni,” “Jesus liebt mich” (Jesus Loves Me) and “The Physician,” as well as adaptations of internationally popular light entertainment and infotainment such as “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (Germany’s Got Talent) “Das Supertalent,” “X Factor” and “Bauer sucht Frau” (Farmer Wants A Wife). More information about UFA and its productions can be found at: www.UFA.de www.facebook.com/UFA
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About Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann is a media, services and education company that operates in about 50
countries around the world. It includes the broadcaster RTL Group, the trade book
publisher Penguin Random House, the magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, the music
company BMG, the service provider Arvato, the Bertelsmann Printing Group, the
Bertelsmann Education Group and Bertelsmann Investments, an international net-
work of funds. The company has 119,000 employees and generated revenues of
€17.2 billion in the 2017 financial year. Bertelsmann stands for entrepreneurship and
creativity. This combination promotes first-class media content and innovative ser-
vice solutions that inspire customers around the world.
As a creative content company and with strong references to its more than 180-year
history, Bertelsmann’s is culturally engaged on various levels as part of its Culture@
Bertelsmann activities. For instance, the Group is strongly dedicated to the preser-
vation of important cultural assets – with a focus on making the cultural heritage ac-
cessible, e.g. through digitization or exhibitions. As a main sponsor of the digital rest-
oration of important silent films, the company also accompanies their performances
worldwide. For instance, Bertelsmann hosts the UFA Film Nights not only in Berlin,
but also at other locations where the Group has operations, such as Brussels, New
York and Madrid, and supports the screening of silent films at festivals around the
world. Bertelsmann also owns the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milan, a music archive
that contains a wealth of unique testimonies to Italian opera history. Bertelsmann is
indexing the archival holdings to meet the latest standards and making the cultural
treasures accessible for a wide audience.
In this way, Bertelsmann combines its own publishing tradition with the require-
ments for handling our cultural heritage in the digital age.
More information about
Bertelsmann is available at:
www.bertelsmann.com
www.facebook.com/Bertelsmann
For more information about
Bertelsmann Unter den Linden 1,
please visit:
www.unter-den-linden-1.deThe UFA Film Nights 2018 14 Contact details Press agency UFA GmbH SteinbrennerMüller Kommunikation Kirstin Krause Kristian Müller Head of Marketing Linienstraße 213 Dianastraße 21 10119 Berlin 14482 Potsdam +49 (0)30 47 37 21 92 +49 (0)331 7060 373 km@steinbrennermueller.de kirstin.krause@ufa.de www.steinbrennermueller.de www.UFA.de Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA Dr. Helen Müller Susanne Erdl Head of Cultural Affairs and Corporate History Vice President Media Relations Bertelsmann Corporate Communications Unter den Linden 1 Carl-Bertelsmann-Straße 270 10117 Berlin 33311 Gütersloh +49 (0)30 520099-212 +49 (0) 52 41 80 42 62 9 helen.mueller@bertelsmann.de susanne.erdl@bertelsmann.de www.bertelsmann.de www.bertelsmann.de Curator of the series Friedemann Beyer Film Historian +49 (172) 263 31 66 friedemann.beyer@web.de www.ufa-filmnaechte.de www.facebook.com/UFAfilmnaechte
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