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Le drame de Shanghaï (VOF)
Location
Salle de projection principale
Date
June 13th, 2022
Duration
98 min
Cycle
Pabst : Masks and Solidarities

On the initiative of the magazine Panorama-cinéma and in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, we present a substantial cycle of around twenty screenings dedicated to the filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst. In addition to his legendary silent films (Loulou, La rue sans joie) and some new restorations, we have also unearthed several rarely shown films from our collections which testify to the richness of an all-out filmography, accompanying the tribulations of his time, for better or for worse. This major cycle is accompanied by a book co-published with Panorama-cinema, with the support of the Goethe-Institut.

Le drame de Shanghaï
Directed by
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Language
French version
Actors
Louis Jouvet, Raymond Rouleau, Christiane Mardayne
Origins
France
Year
1938
Duration
98 min
Genre
Drama
Format
16 mm
Synopsis

In China in search of its unity, the members of the Black Snake sect try to kill the man who imposes himself as political leader.

Le drame de Shanghaï

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885 - 1967) was an Austrian director, screenwriter and producer. He started out as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German-language filmmakers in the Weimar Republic.

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Le drame de Shanghaï by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

The exteriors, shot in Hanoi and mainland China, bring a tone of authenticity to the plot, while Eugen Schüfftan's lighting creates a mysterious, almost expressionist atmosphere, entirely appropriate to the oriental subject. The cast offers a gallery of memorable villains: Jouvet, scarred, as a cynical Ivan, and Inkijinoff, in his film debut, as a Freudian sadist.
Lee Atwell, 1977
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