Event promoted by
Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale, La Farfalla sul Mirino
in conjunction with the
Goethe Institut
Our special thanks go to
Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Cineteca D.W. Griffith, Lab80 film and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung
movies screened in 35mm film
The golden age of Hollywood as we have all come to know and love it was, in fact, largely a European invention. Numerous movie directors from the Old World emigrated to California in the 1920s and '30s, whether for financial reasons or fleeing from dictatorships, and ended up taking the film studios by storm, triggering a truly unique burst of creativity. Most of these directors were Austrian and German, but there were also Poles, Hungarians, French, British, Ukrainians and Moldovans... Alternating European and American films from different eras for the sake of comparison, the retrospective pays tribute to this group of filmmakers whose names have made cinema history – Lubitsch, Lang, Wilder, Siodmak, Ophuls and Hitchcock, or Murnau and Zinnemann – offering the public not only a unique opportunity to rediscover a range of movie masterpieces but also a chance to reflect both on the tragic historical circumstances that prompted so many artistes to leave their own country and on the not always easy encounter between the pragmatism of American culture and Europe's sensitivities and anxities.
Info
Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Sala Cinema
Admission via the steps in Via Milano 9 a, Rome
Admission free while places last
Seats assigned from one hour before the start of each screening. Reservations may be made by membership cardholders only. There will no further admission once the event has started.