THE OTHER EYE
by Hannah Heer & Werner Schmiedel

A/USA color 125 min

Cast: Henri Alekan, Anne Friedberg, Jan-Christopher Horak, Rudolph S. Joesph, Hilde Krahl, Francis Lederer, Jean Oser, Harold Nebenzal, Michael Pabst, Micheline Presle, Carl Szokoll, a.o.

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This breakthrough filmessay explores the strange case of G.W.Pabst, the Austrian Film Director who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went behind a cloud. The film takes us through his work with Garbo and Louise Brooks, and his making of such classics as "Pandora's Box", "The Joyless Street", and "The Threepenny Opera". But this is no ordinary film tribute. For "The Other Eye", Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel, have evolved a rich visual language new to the documentary field, using a elaborate color structure that reflects not only various moods but different periods of time. The film's jazzy style and sophisticated narration probes unflinchingly the controversy surrounding Pabst: What possessed this liberal, cosmopolitan filmmaker to return to Austria in 1939 and direct movies for the Third Reich?
--THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 1991, Film Society of Lincoln Center

Festivals

The New York Film Festival, 1991
The Telluride Film Festival, 1991
The Berlin Film Festival, 1992
The Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel, 1992
The Valladolid Film Festival, Spain, 1992