Die Fächermalerin und Hilde Warren

Die Fächermalerin

In the socially critical melodrama DIE FÄCHERMALERIN, superimpositions, contrasts in light and a short film-in-film animation are used as narrative devices to depict social and gender relations.

Hilde Warren und der Tod

Jay Leyda played a key role in the rediscovery and restoration of Joe May’s HILDE WARREN UND DER TOD at the SFA in 1965. He carried out the respective written correspondence with Fritz Lang (the film was found in a state of “unedited chaos“, as Leyda wrote to him), who had written the script and was willing to help with the reconstruction of the film despite barely being able to remember it. HILDE WARREN UND DER TOD is regarded as a forerunner of Langs’s Der müde Tod (1921) andhas only survived in part. Mia May plays a stage actress who rails against having to play a woman tired of living. Her demonstrative disinterest in death makes Death himself appear in person however, who doesn’t leave her side from then on. Both films will be accompanied by Eunice Martins on the piano.

The print of DIE FÄCHERMALERIN comes from the holdings of the Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin. The digitally restored version of HILDE WARREN was made available by the Friedrich-Murnau-Stiftung.