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F 25. Oct 2024

20/20 Filmifestival: The Last Laugh (1924)

19:30

Tartu city | Tartu Kirjanduse Maja

  • Film
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Side programme
Ticket booth (on location) 5 €

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

The film plot can be summarized as a nameless hotel doorman losing his job.

The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) is a 1924 German silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer. The film stars Emil Jannings and Maly Delschaft.

It is a cinematic example of the Kammerspielfilm (a type of German film that offers an intimate, cinematic portrait of lower middle-class life) or “chamber-drama” genre. This genre follows the style of short, sparse plays of lower-middle-class life that emphasize the psychology of the characters rather than the sets and actions. The genre tried to avoid the intertitles (title cards) of spoken dialogue or description that characterize most silent films, in the belief that the visuals themselves should carry most of the meaning.

The film was voted number 11 on the prestigious Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo. It was remade in 1955.

Tõnis Koppel will create the music for the film, and Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins has written and will perform her new literary work inspired by the film.

Tõnis Koppel is a bassist, composer and installation artist. His musical activities include electro-acoustic original compositions with elements of jazz, folk and rhythm music, as well as collaborations with various bands and artists, including Beatriz Gijon (ONBEAT) and Rasmus Dahl Nielsens Band of Music. As an installation artist, Tõnis combines his technical skills as a programmer and as a musician with his artistic vision, focusing on multi-channel sound, spatial arrangement of sound, interactive sound and light installations and multidisciplinary projects.

Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins is an artist and poet. Her debut collection, “Kivi alla kykakille”, written in the Kadrina dialect, was nominated this year for the annual literature prize of the Cultural Endowment
of Estonia in the poetry category.

Languages

  • EST
  • ENG

Organiser

Kultuuriklubi Salong

Location

Vanemuise tänav 19, Tartu, Tartu maakond, Eesti

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