The White Hell of Pitz Palu
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.
Dr. Krafft loses his wife in a fall in the mountains during their honeymoon. Ten years later, a young couple goes on an expedition to the same place and meets Krafft, who is convinced that his wife is still alive.
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.