Séance spéciale Le 7e genre CABARET BERLIN, LA SCÈNE SAUVAGE

CABARET BERLIN, THE WILD STAGE
by Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir
France, 2010, 70', Documentary, French with English subtitles

Composed entirely of numerous rare film archives—great classics of German cinema, but also fiction films rescued from oblivion, institutional films, advertisements, and documentaries from the period—restored and presented in high definition, 'Cabaret Berlin, the Wild Scene' explores the small artistic and political scenes of Berlin from 1919 to 1933, which indelibly marked the history of entertainment and whose influence is still felt today. Berlin's cabarets reflect, in a magnifying mirror, the short and convulsive history of the Weimar Republic, accompanying its metamorphoses, from inflation to stabilization, from the 1929 crisis to the rise of Nazism.

Taking as its critical subject the teeming political and social reality of the era, the film unfolds like a cabaret show, narrated by the German actor and singer Ulrich Tukur, who here plays the role of lecturer. A form of entertainment, this atypical documentary is also a critical essay on the birth and establishment of modernity, of which Berlin was undeniably the European center.

Screening followed by a Q&A with director Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir and Anne Delabre, programmer of the Le 7e genre film club

Admission: 6 euros (subject to availability)

Translated automatically - see original description in French