›Behind the Door‹, USA 1919, Direction: Irvin Willat
Copyright: San Francisco Film Preserve
Behind the Door
Kinemathek – Hall
The film follows Oscar Krug, a German-American who faces hostility from his community when the United States enters World War I. His decision to join the US Navy proves to be ill-fated for both himself and others. The film tells a deeply disturbing tale of xenophobic rancor, sexual violence and horrifying vengeance. Featuring a large-scale fist fight and extended scenes on board a submarine, this action-packed film also delivers one of the most shocking denouements of the silent era.
USA 1919, Irvin Willat, 72 min, OV
Music: Marco Brosolo
Introduction: Kathy Rose O’Regan (San Francisco Film Preserve)
In English
| Tickets | €10 (€7 reduced) |
| When | Thu 23.10.25, 18:00 |
| Where |
Kinemathek – Hall |
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Film details
Film data
D: Irvin Willat
SP: Luther Reed
DoP: J.O. Taylor, Frank M. Blount
E: Irvin Willat
C: Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, James Gordon, J.P. Lockney, Otto Hoffmann, Wallace Beery
P: Thomas H. Ince Productions
Prod: Thomas H. Ince
Original format: 35 mm, 1:1.33, color (tinted and toned)
Screening print: DCP, 72 min, San Francisco Film Preserve
Restauration info
What has survived of this production is an incomplete print, a roll of outtakes, and another small roll of shots, as well as the remains of an edited export print kept by the Gosfilmofond archive. The original color tinting has also been restored, based on an analysis of the film leaders and the structure of the printing rolls. A new 35 mm preservation negative and a print are now housed at the Library of Congress.
Kathy Rose O’Regan
is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Preserve (SFFP). SFFP’s mission is to restore, preserve and provide access to the world’s cinematic heritage. She served as the Senior Film Restorer for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, overseeing all operations of the preservation department and managing the restoration of dozens of silent era titles. Previously, she managed the preservation department of the Bay Area Video Coalition. She is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, a recipient of a National Film and Sound Archive of Australia fellowship and a steering committee member of Women and Film History International.
Marco Brosolo
was born in Friuli, Italy, and is a visual artist and musician: he combines drawing, minimalism, abstract painting, analog photography, solar papers and pop-concretism, exploring the relationship between imagery and sound. He has also created a multi-sensor instrument called the AST and founded “Moving Silence”, an international platform for contemporary silent cinema. Brosolo has released several genre-defying albums and EPs. Since 2018, he has been part of the Lichtblick Kino collective in Berlin. Brosolo lives in Berlin, Germany.