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Silent Film Concert “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde “
16. November 2024 @ 20:00 - 22:00
Sa, 16. November 2024,
8pm
Bischofsgartenstr. 1
Entry 7 €
Info:
General:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
USA 1920
Register: John S. Robertson
80 Min
Short and Sweet:
The young, virtuous doctor Dr. Jekyll is a respected scientist and benefactor who treats the needy for free at his clinic. He has little time for his fiancée, Millicent, so her future father-in-law decides to test him by tempting him with seductive entertainment at a nightclub.
In an attempt to resist possible temptations, Jekyll comes up with the idea of separating the good and evil in the human soul. In his laboratory, he develops a serum that transforms him into the ruthless Mr. Hyde, through whom he wreaks havoc.
Jekyll increasingly withdraws from public life because he can barely control the effects of the potion and is unable to reverse the transformations. Or does Jekyll even take pleasure in the cruelty of his alter ego…?!”
Musical Score:
New music version for solo piano by Wilfried Kaets
The music was created as a reminiscence of the great tradition of silent film music from the 1920s in Germany.
It is structurally based on the film music dramaturgical approaches of the silent film era, and also incorporates some themes from film archives of the 1920s, but it is a new composition.
This creates an exciting balance of ‘old images’ and ‘new sounds,’ which do not simply run contrapuntally alongside or against the film, but generate a dramaturgically coherent integration.
The music will sound as it might have in a cinema in 1901 – it aims to bring the qualities of the film to life in its own musical language, closely aligned with the original material, breathing acoustic life into the silent performance.
About:
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from 1920 is a film adaptation of the story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by the British author Robert Louis Stevenson.
The dual role is superbly portrayed by the famous stage actor John Barrymore.
With his pantomimic performance of gestures and facial expressions, he carries out the transformation from the flawless gentleman Jekyll into the monstrous Mr. Hyde for the first time in a single shot, without makeup or special effects.”