Goethe Pop Up Seattle is proud to partner with Seattle Theatre Group and the Honorary Consulate of Austria in Seattle for a special reception and screening of the Austrian Expressionist film “The City without Jews” (1924), directed by H.K. Breslauer, with a commissioned score by German composer Günter A. Buchwald who will conduct and perform with Music of Remembrance, a Seattle-based non-profit organization that remembers the Holocaust through music.
The film is based on the dystopian novel of the same title by Jewish author Hugo Bettauer and foreshadows the rise of Nazism. Shortly after the premier of the film in 1924, the author was murdered by a member of the Nazi Party. The film was believed to have been lost for decades. After being rediscovered in a Paris flea market in 2015, it has now been restored and returned to the silver screen.
Nikolaus Wostry, Deputy Director of the Austrian Film Archive, introduces the film. A CineClub discussion on The Paramount stage, with representatives from local Jewish and social justice organizations, immediately follows the film.
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