Film Restored – Workshop Report and Screening ‘The House of Lies’

European Restorations | Transnational

Workshop Report: “Ibsen and Silent Cinema: A Transnational Approach to National Film Heritage” with Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (Nasjonalbiblioteket)

In English

During the silent era, about thirty film adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s works were produced, in Germany, Sweden, the US, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Britain. Recently, the National Library of Norway, in collaboration with international film archives, has started collecting digital and analogue elements of the nine silent Ibsen films that are known to be extant. This discussion will cover some of the experiences involved in assembling such a collection, as well as in its dissemination.

14:30 ‘The House of Lies’

DE 1926, Director: Lupu Pick

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Original format: 35 mm, 1.33:1, bw, silent
DCP 4K, 111 min, Deutsche Kinemathek
Piano: Richard Siedhoff
Introduction: Thor Holt (Centre for Ibsen Studies)

Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘The Wild Duck’

Lupu Pick’s impressive film has languished somewhat in obscurity. An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘The Wild Duck’, the film received glowing reviews when it premiered in Berlin. Ibsen’s drama is about a young woman, Hedvig, whose parentage is in question. The subject matter resonated at a time when the nuclear family was facing changes in the aftermath of World War I, and gender roles in the Weimar Republic were shifting.

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