‘Mod Afgrunden’ m. intro v. Daniel Kehlmann

Mod Afgrunden

Instruktør: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

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G.W. Pabsts ’Mod Afgrunden’ fra 1928 ligner en samtidsudgave af tv-serien ’Babylon Berlin’: En frapperende flot film om en velhavende advokat, der forsømmer sin hustru (Brigitte Helm, som debuterede som Maria i Fritz Langs ’Metropolis’), som til gengæld indleder en flirt med en kunstmaler og kaster sig ud i det vilde natteliv i Berlin. G.W. Pabst bruger ægteskabskrisen som afsæt for et frenetisk samtidsportræt, hvor lyst og laster er fortællingens drivende elementer. LIVE-MUSIK: Stephen Horne.

G.W. Pabst’s ‘The Devious Past’ from 1928 looks like the period’s version of the TV series ‘Babylon Berlin’: a startlingly beautiful film about a wealthy lawyer who neglects his wife (Brigitte Helm, who debuted as Maria in Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’). In turn, she begins a flirtation with a painter and plunges into the wild nightlife of Berlin. G.W. Pabst uses the crisis of their marriage as a starting point for a frenetic portrait of his own time, one where desire and vice are driving elements of the narrative. EVENT Introduction by author Daniel Kehlmann, whose most recent novel, ‘Lichtspiel’, is about Pabst. Kehlmann is Germany’s best-selling author since the Second World War and the author of books such as ‘Measuring the World’, ‘F. A Novel’ and ‘Tyll’. Live-music: Stephen Horne.

Medvirkende: Gustav Diessl, Brigitte Helm, Hertha von Walther, Jack Trevor

Original titel: Abwege
Tyskland, 1928
DCP, 107 min.
Engelske undertekster
Tilladt for børn over 15 år