Day 10 of Berlinale - The Red Dream Factory

Welcome to the almost last post of my Berlinale Mini-Series!

~ Berlinale 2012 ~

One of my favourite parts of Berlinale won't be a surprise for you: The Retrospective programme! It's part of the festival since 1977. "The Retropesctive is always dedicated to an important director or a film history theme"

This year it's called The Red Dream Factory - and it deals with films from a Russian-German film studio: Mezhrabpom Film - and its German branch Prometheus. Especially with it's films from 1922-1936. (well.. I think you know why the Russian/German co-operation didn't go on at some point in history..)

There are many interesting films (- please keep in mind: It's called RED dream factory..) in this programme like:

PESN O GEROJACH/KOMOSOL (SONG OF HEROES) (1932)

KONEZ SANKT-PETERSBURGA (= The End of St. Petersburg) (1927)

source: Berlinale.de

MISS MEND (THE ADVENTURES OF THE THREE REPORTERS) (1926)

WOSSTANIJE RYBAKOW (REVOLT OF THE FISHERMEN) (1934)

~ especially interesting for me because it was directed by German theater legend Erwin Piscator ~

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- and as bit of a completely different world...

...some Berlinale guests of 1954:

~ Gina Lollobrigida ~

~ Sophia Loren, Yvonne De Carlo (of whom I am a big fan..) and Gina Lollobrigida ~

Thank you very much for listening!

Yours very well and truly

Irene