This year we are screening more silent films with live music than ever. These screenings provide a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the audience, evoking the spirit of the heroic age of cinema. The special films will arrive to us from the treasures of archives all around the world. Along with the Portugal, French and American silent films, Michael Curtiz's Hungarian production, The Undesirable will be shown on open-air supported by a grand orchestra, as well as the director's rarely-screened costume film from his Vienna-period, Young Medardus, which established his international fame. The Pathé Baby amateur films made in Hungary between the World Wars are considered real specialities, and are on the programme along with an introduction about the 100-year-old Pathé Baby format, and live music at Toldi Cinema.

Cineconcerts in the Programme:

14.09. 16:00, French Institute
Miklós Rózsa in Hollywood – Book launch and concert
Concert of pianist Krisztina Fejes
Miklós Rózsa: Kaleidoscope op.19
March, Zingara, Musette, Berceuse, Chinese Carillon, Burlesque

14.09. 18:00, French Institute
The Lighthouse Keepers
Os Faroleiros, Portuguese drama, bw, 1922, dir: Maurice Mariaud, silent, Intertitles: Portugese, Subtitles: Hungarian, English, 80’
Cineconcert, with live piano by Kristóf Darvas

14.09. 20:30, Uránia Main Hall
In The Night
Dans la nuit, French drama, 1939, dir: Charles Vanel, silent, intertitles: French, Subtitles: Hungarian, 75’
Cineconcert, with live accordion by Ádám Szabó

15.09. 16:30, Toldi Main Hall
Pathé Baby in Hungary – Amateur Film Selection
107'
Cineconcert, with live piano by Péter Mekis

15.09. 17:00, French Institute
The Merry Widow
American romance, bw, 1925, dir: Erich von Stroheim, silent, Intertitles: English, Subtitles: Hungarian, 137’
Cineconcert, with live piano by Ferenc Darvas

16.09. 19:30, Szent István Square
The Undesirable
Hungarian drama, 1914, dir: Mihály Kertész, silent, Intertitles: Hungarian, Subtitles: English, French, 63’
Open-air screening, Cineconcert by the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra

18.09. 17:00, French Institute
Young Medardus
Der junge Medardus, Austrian historical film, 1923, dir: Michael Curtiz, silent,  Intertitles: French, Subtitles: Hungarian, 136’
Cineconcert, with live piano by Elaine Loebenstein

16.09. 20:00, French Institute
Blind Husbands
American drama, 1919, dir: Erich von Stroheim, silent, Language: English, Subtitles: Hungarian, 102’
Cineconcert, with live piano by Elaine Loebenstein

18.09. 21:00, Toldi Main Hall
King of the Circus
Max, der Zirkuskönig, Austrian-French comedy, bw, 1924, dir: Édouard-Émile Violet, French intertitles, Subtitles: Hungarian, English, 64’
Cineconcert, with live accordion by Ádám Szabó

Lead: Cineconcert of The Man of Gold by the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (photo: Győr Philharmonic Orchestra)