Director: Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920, 71 min.
An accompanying event to the scientific conference
One hundred years of screen horror held on 27-28 February 2020 at the University of Gdańsk.
At a fair, the mysterious doctor Caligari (Werner Krauss) presents Cesar (Conrad Veidt) - a terrifying somnabulist on the border between life and death who wakes up from deep sleep in front of the spectators. When one of the them asks Cesar about the future, the somnabulist says he will die the next morning. This is how a series of strange murders begins. The investigation conducted by Francis (Friedrich Fehér) will lead him to the secret of the insane manipulator who uses Cesar to kill innocent people.
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CZERWIE [ethno, folk, experimental music]:
Wojtek Zaborowski, Maciek Kudłacik, Paweł Zawarus, Piotrek Bogunia
"Czerwie" is a Polish band whose alternative sounds border on folk, ethno, experimental and contemporary music, theater and film music, and theatre of the absurd. They have created their own unique style with unconventional use of instruments and musical values - a fusion of many genres. They wrote music to Albośmy to jacy, tacy, a play directed by Piotr Cieplak based on Stanisław Wyspiański's The Wedding (Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, 2007). The play was staged 50 times in the capital was broadcast on TVP Kultura. The musicians have 6 albums in their discography.
The band has composed music to numerous silent films and is undoubtedly one of few groups with such extensive experience in the field (20 years of activity).
The band has performed at many European festivals, including the prestigious European Silent Cinema Festival Hippodrome in Scotland (2016), Budapesti Klasszikus Film Marathon Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum (Festival of the Hungarian National Film Archive) at the Polish Film Spring in Budapest invited by the Polish Institute (2018), the Museum of Cinema History in Dusseldorf, the Niesse Film Festival 2019.
The band currently consists of 4 musicians - Wojtek Zaborowski, Maciek Kudłacik, Paweł Zawa-rus, Piotrek Bogunia - who play drums, xylophone, percussion instruments, ethnic instruments, bass, guitar, mandolin, accordion, synthesizers. So far the band has played over 800 concerts in Poland and other European countries, such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain.
CZERWIE are at the forefront of groups playing live music for silent films.
www.czerwie.com.pl www.facebook.com/czerw
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Tickets: 1 film PLN 10 discount * / PLN 15 regular / 2 films PLN 15 discount* / PLN 25 regular / 4 films PLN 25 discount* / 40 PLN regular
* discount tickets are available for the students of the Gdańsk University of the Third Age and holders of the Metropolitan Card for Culture (tickets are available half an hour before the screening)
Translation: dr Wioleta Karwacka