L'opéra de Quat'sous
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.
In London, Mackie, the king of the underworld, marries Polly, the daughter of the king of the beggars, against the latter's wishes. Shot in two versions (French and German), sumptuously photographed, with superb songs, this film, which opposed Pabst to Brecht, offered Antonin Artaud a small role, that of a young beggar.
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 film, pour peu qu'on le mette aujourd'hui en parallèle avec M. le Maudit, de Fritz Lang, sorti la même année et drainant des métaphores similaires, peut souffrir de la comparaison. Il demeure que son succès éclipsa celui de la pièce, et qu'à bien des égards il doit être considéré comme une oeuvre-charnière.
(Le Monde, 1995)
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