Die Verlorenen at the Internet Movie Database
Reynold Reynolds
USA/DE 2015/1933
80 min.
HD video transferred from 16mm
with live musical accompaniment by
Gerard Bouwhuis (piano), Heleen Hulst (violin and Foley) and Jellantsje de Vries (viola and Foley)
A film project started in the 1930s, but unfinished.
Newly discovered, remade, completed and performed.
During the year 1933 in Germany film productions were shut down, censorship was imposed, thousands of actors were fired and hundreds of films were destroyed.
Die Verlorenen revives a German film from the 1930s that could have been, but never was.
The film tells the story of a young British writer, Christopher, who comes to Berlin and moves into the Troika, a cabaret where an eccentric old man adopts young performers, artists and musicians. In the basement Christopher bears witness to mystical experiments investigating the boundary between life and death discovering his own identity. Against this backdrop of creative experimentation the cabaret is under threat from growing political conservatism.
The film material was assembled by Reynold Reynolds and is screened with a live musical score arranged and performed by Gerard Bouwhuis (piano), Heleen Hulst (violin) and Jellantsje de Vries (viola). Both Heleen Hulst and Jellantsje de Vries will additionally perform as Foley artists with the film; creating sound effects within the boundaries of the soundscape of the musical score.
The score has been based on musical fragments from the early 1920s and 1930s by composers such as Franz Schreker, George Antheil, Erwin Schulhoff, Stefan Wolpe, Paul Hindemith and Hans Eissler.
Screening Die Verlorenen
presented in the series Cinema Concert and the programme EYE on Art
11 October 2015
EYE Amsterdam
Cinema 1
16:00h / 4 pm
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Credits
Production
Saskia Reynolds
Cinematography
Imogen Heath
Production design
Ana J. Bellido
Main roles by
Tomas Sinclair Spencer, Florian Rummel, Francesca Romana Ciardi, Sarah Grether, Stephanie Krogmann, Benjamin Radjaipour, Michael Fritz Schumacher, Christian Harting, Espin Bowder, Anna-Maria Sommer
Assistant Director– Moritz Uebele
Assistant Art Director– Andrés Cota Hiriart
Art Department/Sound– Maria Fernandez Rua-Figueroa
Camera Department- George Steffens
Assistant Cinematography– Silvia Maggi
Art Department– Era Vati, Cristina Sitja
Second Unit Cinematography– Carlos Vasquez
Choreography/Casting– Regina Sobel
Dramatist/Casting– Emily Kuhnke
Starring
Christopher– Tomas Sinclair Spencer
Heinrich– Florian Rummel
Francesca– Francesca Romana Ciardi
Lilly– Sarah Grether
Maria– Stephanie Krogmann
Benjamin– Benny Radjaipour
Ernst– Espin Bowder
Police officer Hans– Christian Harting
Scientist– Michael Fritz Schumacher
Venus– Anna-Maria Sommer
Heinrich’s father– Paul Weismann
WW1 victim– Johannes Groschupf
WW1 veteran– Jean Denis Römer
Mr. Arthur Morris– John Wiseman
Frau Kratzig the cook– Veronika Nowag-Jones
Young Vampire– Sigurður Unnar Birgisson
Opera Singer– Tanja Šimić Queiroz
Opera Singer-Dylan Nichole Bandy
Dancer– Livia Rutishauser
Smoker on train-Florian Krüger
Waitress– Jill T. Böttcher
Waiter– Andreas Müller
Performance Couple– Brina Stinehelfer & Nikolaus Schneider
Border Patrol train arrival– Michael Kwidzinski
Ticket seller– Jana Lobreyer
Border Control at departure– Florian Elschker
Train Conductor at departure– Chris Daigl
Couple kicked off train- Eva Breitfuss & Marc Langkammerer
Mime- Eneko Sanz
Horse carriage driver– Mr. Lehneis
Butcher– Frank Riemer
Police Officer– Ulrich Gall
Trapeze artist– Sanela Hasanovic
Barfly– Oliver Vogt
Bathtub girl– Megan Goddard
Bathroom smoker– Ana J. Bellido
Drunk– Cem Özcakir
Painter– Isabel Meier Koll
Cabaret Dancer– Ghala Robitzsch
Screaming girl in castle– Viola van Beek
Passengers on train arriving to Berlin (thanks to Schauspielschule Koblenz)
Nadine Braemer, Linda Lunga, Florian Krüger, Regina Tempel, Isabelle Mielke,
Helena Steiger, Gesa Dittmann, Simon Slomma, Alexander Seelmann, Christina Osiewacs, Selma Kirchner, Martin Schromek, Vanessa Frankenbach, Vanessa Fischer, Jessica Kellersch, Stephanie Schütz
Dream men–
Adrian Brun, Moritz Geiser, Patrick Zhang (Gizza), Arkadij Koscheew, Ed McAliece, Rodrigo Leite
Photographer stand in– Doug Piburn
Models from photo studio–
Lake Sharp, Jessica Hanna, Alex Schmidt, Timmy Brown & Darren Schroader, Heidi Darchuk, Olivier Mosset, Kim and Josh Kirchmer
Audience cabaret–
Marlene Melchior, Kellie Pickard, Martin Hansen, Hubert Burczek, Jutta Wunderlich, Sylvain Dubray, Nawel Benziane, Betty Boehm, Nadine Jaeger, Paris Helene Furst
Venus by Performance Artist Anna-Maria Sommer
Art Department
Art Director– Ana J. Bellido
Assistant Art Director– Andrés Cota Hiriart
Artist– Era Vati
Graphics– Zora Kästner and Cristina Sitja
Set Dressers– Miren Oller, Michelle Marie Letelier, Maud Chalard, Simon Hayer
Assistant– Nia Burks
Set Photography– Leifur Wilberg Orrason, Roselyne Titaud, Milla Basmakova
Assistant Set Photography– Anna Pabis, Margherita Malerba, Maryna Shuklina, Betty Boehm
Set construction–
Samuel Hof, Hassan Pitts, Jennida Chase, Jon Hein, Cruz, Felipe Frozza, Pablo Fernandez
Camera Department
Cinematography– Imogen Heath
Assistant Cinematography– Moritz Uebele, Silvia Maggi and George Steffens
Second Unit Cinematography– Carlos Vasquez
Assistant Second unit– Carlos Lopez, Oliver Lechner, Betty Boehm, Delfina Mayer, Francisco Saco
Sound Department
Sound recoding– Martin Backes (aconica), Maria Fernandez Rua-Figueroa
Sound assistant– Matteo Taberna
Radio– Archive.org
Arduino design– Alberto Massa, Michael van Rosmalen
Costume Department
Costume design– Nina Gundlach
Costume assistant– Catie Lamer
Costumes Berlin– Mimi Berlin
Costumes Stuttgart– Gewand
Costumes Nürnberg– Luna Mittig
Costume Assistant– Paris Helene Furst
Makeup– Julia von Leliwa
Makeup/hair– Monika Harbecke
Makeup– Isabel Katja Dominguez
Hair LA Models– Abraham Esparza
Research and Production
Film History Research– Maurizio Buquicchio
Additional Research– Catie Lamer, Amanda Blows, Clare Molloy
Production Assistant– Holly Ambrozic McKee, Kalia Rosa Laycock-Walsh
Academic background writing– Monika Wulz
Bologna Workshop Students–
Claire Bosi, Sigurður Unnar Birgisson, Maurizio Buquicchio, Giacomo Copelli, Florian Fusco, Jacopo Jenna, Sebastian Melo, Olga Pavlenko, Angelica Porrari, Nat Wilms
Choreography
HKW– Regina Sobel
Dream– Adrian Brun, Moritz Geiser
Film font design– Underware
Live Music
Gerard Bouwhuis- Piano
Heleen Hulst- Violin
Jellantsje de Vries- Viola
Cabaret Troika
Pianist- András Vermesy
Pianist- François Guitard
Double Bass- Pedro Moyano
This project was made possible through the support of
Markus Hannebauer; Fluentum Collection in Berlin, Galerie Zink Berlin, Volker Koch, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Merz Akademie, MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg and the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation (LFK), Haus der Kulturen der Welt- Berlin, Sprengel Museum & Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Deutsche Bahn Museum in Nürnberg and Koblenz, Schauspielschule Koblenz, Month of Performance Art in Berlin, Dejavu/Nosadella.due in Bologna and West- The Hague.
Die Verlorenen is a project in conjunction with the innovative research project ¡REMEDIATE!, a cooperation between Akademie Schloss Solitude and Merz Akademie – Hochschule für Gestaltung, Kunst und Medien; supported by MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg and the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation (LFK), Stuttgart- Germany
The performance in EYE is a collaboration between EYE and the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam and has been supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and is screened in the series ‘Cinema Concert’ and the programme EYE on Art