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FAUST Director: F.W. Murnau, Germany 1924 with: G. Ekmann, E. Jannings, C. Horn, Y. Gilbert e.a. Film-Music: Günter A. Buchwald Clip from the live recording of the premier 2012 Philh. Orch. Freiburg, Cond.: G.A. Buchwald |
Murnau's Faust combines elements of the
medieval folk tale with the pieces by Goethe and Marlowe. From the prologue
in heaven till the final triumph of love, this metaphysique fantasy thriller
decribes the battle between good and evil.
" ... Buchwald's
music is a great achievement [...]
He uses musical citations with virtuosity [...] He drives on or calms down the action, paints a detail or creates a fantastic panorama.. " |
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NOSFERATU Director: F. W. Murnau, Germany 1922 Restorerd + tinted version , 93' with: M. Schreck, G.v. Wangenheim, G. Schröder e.a. Film Music: Günter A. Buchwald Clip from the live recording of the premier 2015 Philh. Orch. Freiburg, Cond.: G.A. Buchwald |
This
first film adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was one of the first "horror films" and belongs to the most impressive masterpieces of the German silent movie era: an expressionistic pictorially powerful psychogram. "... a truely wonderful “Symphony of Horror”, in the same time melodious and effective and captivating rhythmical ... " " ... this music is the essential key for the modern interpreta- tion of Bram Stoker´s Dracula, brilliantly working out the ups and downs of psychological human behavior !” "... standing ovation [...] for an outstanding, highly interes- ting and congenial interpretation.” |
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Sumiko (Naniga kanojo o so saseta ka - Was hat sie dazu getrieben?) Director:S. Suzuki, Japan 1929 Restored version 1997, 76' with: K.Takatsu, T. Unno, T. Nijo, R. Fujima e.a. Film Musikc Günter A. Buchwald World premier: Filmfestival Kyoto 1997 Clip with ouverture and 2 scenes Filarmonica Banatul Timisora, Cond.: G.A. Buchwald |
A
masterpiece of the japanese silent movie era from the 30ies. A socio-critical tragedy, staged with avantgardistic style elements, an innovative camera work and a great acting performance by Keiko Takatsu as Sumiko. [...] an impressive piece of modern "E" music with a variety of sound-painting and melodious elements..." "The music combines modern atonality with reminiscences of Asian Pentatonic and symphonical late Romantic [...] a discrete music, which precisely by that gains an amazing thrilling quality [...] , which stands even without pictues.. " |
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The Wind Director: V. Sjöström, USA 1928 Restored versiong Cineteca del Friuli, 76' with: L. Gish, L. Hanson e.a. Film Music: Günter A. Buchwald World premier: Cividale del Friuli 2017 Clip from the live recording of the premier 2017 Zerorchestra, Acad. d'Archi Arrigoni, Cond.: G.A. Buchwald |
A thriller set in the rural Texas of 1880, partly a western, partly a dramatic love story: challenged by the forces of nature a naive beauty matures to become an adult woman. A highlight in the career of Hollywood star Lilian Gish. " ... a classical silent movie (...), who offered to
Lillian Gish " ...one of the last great silent movies — with an amazing desert storm scene magnificently set to pictures ..." |
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CASANOVA Director: A. Wolkoff, France, 1927 Restored version Cinémathèque Francaise 1989 , 133' with: I. Mosjukin, S.Bianchetti, J. Jugo, M. Ivogün e.a. Film Music: Günter A. Buchwald World premier: Freiburg 2019 Clip with ouverture Music added by digital device |
A big spectacle with an abundancy of varied places and episodes
located in Venise, St. Petersburg and Austria, with different ambiances
between imperial court and street life, pursuit in the winter forest and
adventures on Venetian lagoons, and, above all, impressionating mass scenes, opulent scenery and costumes. „ A resplendent silent movie with overwhelming
mass scenes, staged in richly detailed decorations." |