"Mute Nights" film festival, July 8-10

06.07.2016

The seventh international festival of silent films "Mute Nights" will be held in Odessa starting from July 8 till 11 at the port behind the marine passenger terminal.

The festival will feature silent movies from Ukraine, China, the United States, Britain and Germany. The show will be accompanied by performances of musicians from Belarus, Ukraine and Mexico.

Ukraine will present two premieres of films that previously were listed as missing. National Dovzhenko Film Centre will show the work of Peter Chardynin "Taras Triasilo". This film was found just recently in France and restored. The film was the most expensive project at the time of creation. In Odessa, the film will be shown with the accompaniment of pianist Andrew Show, which will dedicate his performance to commemoration of Yuri Kuznetsov.

The avant-garde film by Mikhail Kaufman "Unprecedented campaign" was dedicated to the history of collectivization of the Ukrainian village. The film will be accompanied by works of composers Anton Baibakov.

The new music quartet "Supremus" will make music score for the American film "The Wind", shot by Swedish director Victor Shestrema, who played the role of Professor Isak Borg in "Wild Strawberries" in 1957.

Belarusian accordionist Yagor Zabel will accompany the Chinese film "The Goddess" (1934), acknowledged masterpiece of psychological cinema, which tells about the social drama in Europe in the twenties.

Psychological thriller "Cottage in Dartmoor" (1929) of British film director Anthony Asquith was made on the basis of the detective story and it is considered to be the forerunner of Hitchcockian drama. The film will be accompanied by the performance of Mexican duet "La Escalera", playing electronic percussion.

The audience will see the beginning of the German expressionism in the movie "Back Door", in which the star of early silent cinema Henny Porten demonstrated her skills. This film will be accompanied by Julia Zaporozhets, a pupil of the great Odessa jazz musician Yuri Kuznetsov.