The City Without Jews – Film with Live Music
  • Saturday 19 October 2024, 8:00pm
  • Carole Nash Hall
  • £20.50 Standard, FTE/U18 £5.50
Image Film still image of a seated man in a suit, with a six-pointed star on the floor below him

Set in the Vienna-like city of Utopia, this film 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 the Austrian Film Archive – and almost exactly a century after its Vienna premiere – this disturbing and unique film now has its first screening in Manchester. 

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin have been bringing audiences to their feet throughout the U.S. and Europe with their unique and stirring violin and piano scores for Jewish-themed silent films. Sosin is one of the world’s finest silent film musicians; Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer violinist and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. 

Post Show Discussion

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin will join Manchester Jewish Museum curator Josh Jones and Northern Silents Artistic Director Jonny Best for a 30-minute discussion and Q&A immediately following the film.

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin

www.northernsilents.com

Funding support provided by The Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts.

 

Seating for this show will be unallocated in the Carole Nash Hall. If you have any access requirements, please do let us know at boxoffice@stollerhall.com or on 0333 130 0967 (lines open Tuesday – Thursday 1.30pm – 4pm). You can find out more about access in our building here.

The City Without Jews – Film with Live Music
  • Carole Nash Hall
  • £20.50 Standard, FTE/U18 £5.50

Directed by HK Breslauer
Austria, 1924
91 minutes
PG

Set in the Vienna-like city of Utopia, this film 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 the Austrian Film Archive – and almost exactly a century after its Vienna premiere – this disturbing and unique film now has its first screening in Manchester. 

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin have been bringing audiences to their feet throughout the U.S. and Europe with their unique and stirring violin and piano scores for Jewish-themed silent films. Sosin is one of the world’s finest silent film musicians; Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer violinist and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. 

Post Show Discussion

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin will join Manchester Jewish Museum curator Josh Jones and Northern Silents Artistic Director Jonny Best for a 30-minute discussion and Q&A immediately following the film.

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin

www.northernsilents.com

Funding support provided by The Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts.

 

Seating for this show will be unallocated in the Carole Nash Hall. If you have any access requirements, please do let us know at boxoffice@stollerhall.com or on 0333 130 0967 (lines open Tuesday – Thursday 1.30pm – 4pm). You can find out more about access in our building here.

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