28th Pordenone Silent Film Festival

Italy, from 3 to 10 October

The essential Giornate del Cinema Muto are again bringing together cinema enthusiasts, historians and curators in Pordenone and giving them the chance to bring silent film to life during one week.

The festival opens its 28th edition with the screening of The Merry Widow (1925) by Erich Von Stroheim (october 3 at 8:30 p.m). The film will be accompanied by the Mitteleuropa Orchestra conducted by Maud Nelissen.

Maud Nelissen also composed and performed with The Sprockets the music for The Three Must-Get-Theres, by Max Linder, visible on Europa Film Treasures.

Among the musical events, retrospectives and tributes,

- The French Film Archives (CNC - Bois d'Arcy) are celebrating their fortieth anniversary and on this occasion are offering a selection of French films from the 1920's.

- The programming «Il canone rivisitato/The Canon revisited» offers the chance to rediscover great silent films including The Ten Commandments (C.B. De Mille, 1923), Du Skal Aere Din Hustru (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1925) and J'accuse by Abel Gance, a film restored by Lobster and the Nederlands Filmmuseum.
- And for fans of police investigations, the programming «Sherlock e gli altri/Sherlock and Beyond» offers eight investigation sessions alongside Sherlock Holmes and his detective colleagues.

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