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Matinee with Vera Tschechowa

Sun., 30.03. - Caligari 11.00

Film adaptions by directors from East and West have interpreted Anton Cechov's works in many different ways. But goEast not only brings his work to life through moving pictures. As a guest of honour, Vera Tschechowa will participate in the goEast-festival, herself an offspring of the unique Cechov-dynasty of artists. In a matinée, film critic Daniel Kothenschulte introduces the actress. In the matinée's second part we screen the film OCI CJORNYE (SCHWARZE AUGEN ) by Nikita Michalkov. In this 1987 adaption of Cechov's novel "Die Dame mit dem Hündchen", Marcello Mastroianni is cast as the bon vivant Romano.
Born in 1940 in Berlin, Vera Tschechowa was among the first modern new stars of 50ies cinema that saw the necessity to create a distinctive personal image for oneself by taking demanding roles - and this in a difficult phase of German film history. She appeared in a Böll-film adaption, DAS BROT DER FRÜHEN JAHRE, and in LIEBE MIT 20, an international episode film from the surroundings of the Nouvelle Vague. Nowadays, the cinema buff is an accepted filmmaker of TV-documentaries about people from the international world of film, among them Anthony Quinn and Michael Ballhaus. Vera Tschechowa is the grand-daughter of actress, director, and producer Olga Tschechowa, who made her debut with Murnau after emigrating from Russia in 1921 and who later became one of the most celebrated stars of the so-called Third Reich. The matinée enables the goEast-audience to encounter a time witness and protagonist of German film history - as well as a huge Russian-German family history.

The retrospective of goEast is supported by the BKM (Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien).