The Man with a Movie Camera and Michael Nyman Band

Michael Nyman and the Michael Nyman Band will accompany live the film Living Russia, or The Man with a Camera (Chelovek s kino-apparatom), directed by: Dziga Wiertow, USSR 1929.

Living Russia, or The Man with a Camera is a film, which belongs to the European trend of urban symphonies and at the same time it is one of the most distinguished works of the silent cinema and a classical piece of soviet cinematography. The main characters of Wiertow’s film are Moscow of the 1920s and the camera itself, following the rhythm of life, penetrating the fast-running trains, trams, work in factories and offices, ordinary days of ordinary people. Michael Nyman, fascinated with this rhythmical symphony of images, created a special score for it.

ticket prices: 40 PLN (full fare), 20 PLN (reduced fare - for holders of festival passes)