German Silent Film "Jealousy" to be Screened April 29, 2011

1925 German Expressionist film, with live piano accompaniment

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Still from film "Jealousy" (1925)

ALBANY, NY (04/07/2011)(readMedia)-- JEALOUSY (VARIETÉ , Germany, 1925, 72 minutes, b/w, silent with live piano accompaniment by Mike Shiffer, directed by Ewald André Dupont) will be shown on Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.

A dazzling work of German Expressionist cinema, this silent film features a trio of acrobats enmeshed in a love triangle. Jealousies lead, inevitably, to murder. The story is told as a series of recollections by the killer himself (played by Emil Jannings) as he explains the events that led to his crime.

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.

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