Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2024: A Trick of Light

Director: Wim Wenders

Screenplay by Wim Wenders, Sebastian Andrae, Henrick Heckmann, Veit Helmer, German Kral, Barbara Rohm, Alina Teodorescu
Director of photography: Jürgen Jürges
Music by Laurent Petitgand
Cast: Udo Kier, Otto Kuhnle, Christoph Merg

The Sky Over Budapest – Focus on Wim Wenders

Siblings Max és Emil Skladanowsky joined the Lumière brothers in the race to invent cinema. They held a public screening in the ballroom of the Berlin Wintergarten using their invention, called the Bioscop, a few weeks before the French pair. Although ultimately the world does not associate their names with the birth of film, they still represent an important part of the story. Wenders’ heartwarming, joyous film brings to life these two brothers. It was shot with students of the film school in Munich, to a large extent using an original silent film camera dating from the 1920s.

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