Fahrstuhl zum Schafott (Ascenseur pour l’échafaud)

F 1958, Feature film, Director: Louis Malle, French. OF with German subtitles, 93 min.

With Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Lino Ventura and others.

Former officer Julien Tavernier and Florence Carala are lovers. But Florence is married to the older defense contractor Simon Carala, in whose company Tavernier works in a managerial position. Florence and Julien Tavernier plan to get rid of him. Tavernier has devised an almost perfect murder plan for this ...

Jeanne Moreau became a star with this film, and it was Louis Malle 's breakthrough. Elevator to the Gallows is considered a pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague. The melancholy modal jazz soundtrack by Miles Davis was recorded completely improvised in just one night in a studio on the Champs-Élysées.

COOL - A Miles Davis jazz movie day

On May 26, Miles Davis (1926 - 1991) would have been 100 years old, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, a man of change who prided himself on having fundamentally renewed jazz several times: From bebop to the tonal sophistication of cool jazz, from the earthy passion of hard bop to the iridescence of modal jazz, from the magnetism of the swinging beat to the groove, to the trance of electronic dance music.

The UNERHÖRT! Music Film Festival Hamburg presents three films at the Metropolis Cinema that focus on Miles Davis and his music.

The trio Rückert Hughes Popple and DJ Round Table will perform in the supporting program - with jazz from bebop to dancefloor.

Hamburg-based cultural journalist Stefan Hentz, who has been awarded the German Jazz Journalism Prize and whose biography Miles Davis. Sound of a Life has just been published by Reclam, provides an overview of key stages in the trumpeter's artistic career and musical aesthetics and introduces the films.