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19 October 2024 Manchester (United Kingdom)
Northern Silents: The City Without Jews
Alicia Svigals, violin and Donald Sosin, piano - Stoller Hall
Program Info: Klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and American pianist Donald Sosin conclude their Northern Silents residency with a remarkable film - found in Paris flea market in 2015 after being lost since the 1930s.
The film Set in the Vienna-like city of Utopia, The City Without Jews follows the political and personal consequences of an anti-Semitic law to expel the city’s Jews. Pushed onto trains with whatever belongings they could carry, forced against their will into an uncertain future, these scenes seem eerily prescient today.
The film had its final screening in Amsterdam in 1933, as a protest against the Nazis - after which it was thought that every copy had been destroyed. Miraculously, in 2015 a complete print of the film was discovered in a Paris flea market. Beautifully restored by Filmarchiv Austria - and almost exactly a century after its Vienna premiere - this disturbing and unique film now has its first screening in Manchester.
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