Live: Das alte Rheinland in Farbe

In the organizer's words:

A historical film journey in the presence of the author Hermann Rheindorf and guests (tba)

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You've never seen the old Rhineland like this before. Welcome to this fascinating journey along the Rhine through history, going back over a hundred years. With the oldest film footage of the Rhine in existence, for the first time in a lavishly colorized version.

Cologne filmmaker Hermann Rheindorf has collected film rarities from all over the world and arranged them into a never-before-seen intoxication of images and impressions. Over 800 historical film scenes were colorized in several stages for this unique project. Artificial intelligence was used as well as the proven colorist team of Georg von Kreisler, Rike Schmidt and Peter Dohr. A team that already caused a sensation with "Old Cologne in Color" and "Cologne after the War in Color". And Christian Brückner, one of the most renowned narrators of our time, is back to tell the stories behind the breathtaking images in his own special way.

The historical film journey takes us to the most spectacular section that Father Rhine has to offer: The Rhine metropolises of Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz, Wiesbaden and Mainz shine in the film in their former glory. In between lies the romantic Rhine Valley, a landscape straight out of a fairy tale. The mighty river, dominated by the highest density of knights' castles in the world, with idyllic little towns and vineyards as far as the eye can see. And then there are the daughters of the Rhine, an advertising motif that creates the illusion of a sweet life on the Rhine. On the banks of the Rhine we meet fishermen with full nets, washerwomen with amazing washing power, the Rhine is a swimming paradise in summer and a winter dream when completely frozen over. The old and new kings of the river meet on the river: gigantic wooden rafts drift past huge paddle steamers with up to eight barges in tow. And with over 100 KD excursion steamers, millions of onlookers have been coming here since imperial times. But the knights' castles were by no means built as tourist attractions; they bear witness to the fate of the Rhineland as an unprecedented bone of contention in history.

All of this - the beauty, the spectacular and the tragedy - is brought to life in the moving images. The footage helps us to understand how the Rhineland became what it is today. So let's follow the call of the Loreley: against the current from Cologne (ascent) and downstream (descent) from Mainz.

Price information:

from €15.00