Movies

11:00 a.m.

Cinema organ played live & silent film: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
USA 1920, Director: John S. Robertson, after the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, featuring John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Martha Mansfield, Nita Naldi, c. 80 minutes

Organist: Richard Siedhoff
Meeting point: Entrance to the cinema hall / Please register in advance at the ticket office of the Grassi Museums

11:30 a.m.

Animated film: „Der Junge und der Reiher" (The Boy and the Heron)
Japan, 2023; Director: Hayao Miyazaki; 124 min., version in German

After his mother is killed in an air raid during the Second World War, eleven-year-old Mahito has to leave Tokyo. He moves in with his father and his father's new wife in an old mansion on a huge country estate. Isolated from the world, Mahito begins to explore the enchanted landscapes that surround his new home and encounters a mysterious grey heron that stubbornly stays by his side. Gradually, the heron becomes his guide and helps him to better understand the world around him and unravel the mysteries of life.

The film is a semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death and creation, and not least a tribute to friendship, by master director Hayao Miyazaki.
The film won the Oscar for "Best Animated Film" at the 96th Academy Awards.