Pola Negri: Bestia

In the organizer's words:

Poland 1917, 48 min. Her career began in Poland before she became a silent film star in Germany, before love drew her to France and a love affair with Charlie Chaplin in America: Pola Negri plays the leading role in Bestia, which was made during the First World War in Warsaw, which was under German military rule. It is also the beginning of her career: a melodrama in which the lives of the upper class and the crook milieu intermingle. Bestia premiered on January 5, 1917. It is the only Polish Negri film that still exists today and the artist's last Russian-Polish film before she left for Germany in 1917. Director Aleksander Hertz (1879-1928) is of paramount importance in Poland's film history: he owned the most important production company in Warsaw, Sfinks, during the reign of the tsars. The pianist, composer and improvisation artist Marie-Luise Bolte makes this silent film masterpiece audible for us.

Event by arabesques - Franco-German Cultural Festival in cooperation with CineGraph - Hamburgisches Zentrum für Filmforschung e.V. We would like to thank the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation for their support.

Price information:

12 Euro normal price / 8 Euro for members of Kinemathek Hamburg e.V.