The red dream factory - film series at the Film Museum Munich

Aelita is one of the films from the film series The Red Dream Factory at the Film Museum MünchenDie this year's Berlinale, which was organized in cooperation with the Munich Film Museum, stands in the history books. Were dedicated to the Berlin International Film Festival films from the Soviet-German red Meschrabpom dream factory. Meschrabpom is Russian for International Workers' Aid. A selection of these films shows the Film Museum from 28.02. until 14.03.2012 in his film series "The Red Dream Factory". The silent film "Revolt of the Fishermen" (1935), "Aelita" (1924), "The Kiss of May Pickford" (1927) and "Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness" (1929) are live performances at the Richard Siedhoff or Joachim Bärenz wing accompanied.

In 1921 began a unique collaboration between the International Film Workers Aid (IAH short) - the Willi Münzenberg led from Berlin - and Moisej Alejnikows Moscow Rus film studio, which later was added the German distribution and production company Prometheus. The focus of the resulting group of political and social issues and the innovative design elements that characterize Meschrabpom productions, changed the language of film in European cinema. Until the violent closure in Berlin in 1933 and 1936 in Moscow created nearly 600 feature films, documentaries and animated films, including many classics of Soviet cinema and the proletarian cinema in Germany. Important directors were Boris Barnet, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Yakov Protazanov, Lev Kuleshov and Phil Jutzi.

In Meschrabpom merged commercial and ideological goals. Aljenikow ran the studio like a family and put on genres that came to meet an audience taste that had been heavily influenced by European and American films. Secretly tell Meschrabpom many films by the great fascination with the American cinema of the directors. In addition to documentary and animation films in the portfolio of the studio was also room for the avant-garde. It was part of the invention of the revolutionary, unleashed cinematic language that brought the Soviet montage cinema its unique intensity.

At the opening of the series, Alexander Black, one of the curators of the series, on Tuesday, 28.02. at 19:00 clock his documentary "The Red Dream Factory" (2012) about the background and the filmmaking of the studio before. Then, the silent film "Wosstanje Rybakov" is ("Revolt of the Fishermen", 1935) shown by Erwin Piscator and Mikhail Doller, who is accompanied on the piano by Richard Siedhoff.

Visit the film series "The red dream factory" in the period from 28.02. until 14.03.2012 in Munich Film Museum in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.