Einleitung zu Arnold Schönbergs Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene

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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene

Einleitung zu Arnold Schönbergs Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene
Jean-Marie Straub
Retrospective 2021
Documentary Film
FRG
1972
16 minutes
German
subtitles: 
None

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Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie Straub
Danièle Huillet
Renato Berta
Horst Bever
Jean-Marie Straub
Danièle Huillet
Jeti Grigioni
Harald Lill
Jean-Marie Straub
Danièle Huillet
Günter Peter Straschek
Peter Nestler
Danièle Huillet

“Imminent danger, fear, catastrophe,“ the Austrian-Jewish composer Arnold Schönberg wrote on top of his film score in 1930, to which – except in this collage, swaying like a battered boxer between austere reading document, black film abysses and roaring tempests of images – no film was ever made. Schönberg’s letters articulate the forebodings of the disaster the National Socialists were to bring upon the Jews, describe anti-Semitism that was becoming systematic, marginalization and defamation. Inserted in between, as a look back and forward at historical continuities: bombers approaching Vietnam, the shot Paris Communards in coffins arranged like letter cases.

Sylvia Görke