Director Wim Wenders (Wings of Deire), in his role as guest professor of the Munich film school (HFF), provides his students with as much practical training as possible by just making films with them. What started out as a short film about the famous Skladanowsky brothers and their Bioskop projector turned into a feature-length film.
Die Gebrueder Skladanowksy (A Trick of the Light) is a charming, most unusual portrait of the ingenious brothers Skladanowsky and their poetic, endearing, rather un-German way of co-inventing the moving pitures in 1895, along with the Brothers Lumiere in France and Edison in America.
Shooting took place in Berlin over a period of three years. With Juergen Juerges behind an original camera from the Skladanowsky time and editor Peter Przygodda, one of Germy's most acclaimed cutters, the technical credits are of remarkable quality. Wim Wenders, incidentally, also appears in the cast. Watch out for the milkman! Silke Schuetze
Prods: Wim Wenders, Veit Helmer, Wolfgang Laengsfeld
Dir/scr: Wim Wenders with stunts of HFF Muenchen
Ph: Juergen Juerges
Ed: Peter Prszygodda
Cast: Udo Kier, Nadine Buettner, Christoph Merg, Lucie Huertgen-Skladanowsky
Running time: 79 mins
Screenings: Wednesday 13 November, 16.15 and 20.45, NFT1
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