National Film Archive of India at 6.30 pm
(Free Admittance)
Ciné-Concert – Cagliostro (1929): Silent film by Richard Oswald
On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Elysée, we invite you to enjoy Cagliostro, a recently restored German-French movie by Richard Oswald (1929). «Cagliostro – Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers» (Cagliostro – love and life of a great adventurer) narrates the adventures and swindlings of a famous 18th century crook and his journeys through Europe.
The film will be accompanied live by Mathieu Regnault, a French pianist and composer specializing in film music, which will make you feel this special alchemy between cinema and music.
The Italian adventurer Cagliostro was arrested and held in the Bastille for being involved in the affair of the diamond necklace, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence. He later visited England from where he left for Rome. He was arrested and imprisoned in the Castel Sant’Angelo. He was sentenced to death for being a Freemason, but his sentence was changed to life imprisonment by the Pope. Cagliostro is a lost film that was partially restored recently by the French Cinematheque.
Ciné-Concert – This concept comes from the very beginning of Cinema, when all films were silent and so, accompanied by live music, generally composed or improvised for the movie. This long lost tradition, of ciné-concert, got a new birth in France in 1976.
