20/20 Film Festival: Three Women (1924)

20/20 Film Festival is a three-day festival dedicated to cinematography, music and literature.

It is a lavish love drama with a powerful and unusual angle. A mother and daughter become rivals for a man worthy of neither of them. When the third woman and the daughter’s fiancée come into the game, things get really spicy. Complicated relationships culminate in a shooting death and a murder trial.

Three Women, also known as Die Frau, die Freundin und die Dirne, is a 1924 American silent drama film starring May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick, and Marie Prevost. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and based on the novel Lillis Ehe by Yolande Maree (Iolanthe Mares). According to Warner Bros records, based on the earnings, it was the studio’s most popular film of 1924–25.

Maimu Jõgeda will create the music for the film, and Kristjan Haljak has written and will perform his new literary work inspired by the film.

Maimu Jõgeda is an accordionist whose music takes listeners to paths where they would like to stay and enjoy the beauty for an infinite time. Her musical background is in classical, jazz, and traditional music, the latter closest to his heart. The accordionist has lived and studied in the Nordic countries for the past five years, where he graduated from the Sibelius Academy. Maimu has released two solo albums: “Dedication” (2017) and “The one about…” (2020). A new album inspired by Nordic tradition, “Reflections of the Nordic Countries”, which includes original music inspired by the traditional music of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway, is expected in January 2025.

Kristjan Haljak is a poet, translator, literary scholar, and teacher. His seventh book of poems, Elektra Domina, was published last year, and his translation of Comte de Lautréamont’s Songs of Maldoror was published this year.