Filmpodium, a repertory cinema operated by the Mayor of Zurich’s Office of Cultural Affairs, screens around 350 different films per year. Thematic cycles and retrospectives of classic works of cinema run side-by-side with premieres of distinctive ...
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Cinema Concert: Mrs Krausen’s Journey to Happiness
Phil Jutzi (Germany, 1929)
Live music: MURNAU’S HEAD
featuring Altin Asllani (piano, electronics), Stephen Thomas (guitar), León Zehnder (guitar) & The Weathereye (drums)
Living in a tenement block in Berlin’s working-class district of Wedding, Mother Krause is desperately trying to scrape together the money needed to keep her family afloat. But her son Paul drinks away what little they have and is also drawn into criminal activities. Meanwhile, her daughter Erna meets Max, a politically active worker. Is there a way out of this misery? As a seminal work of the proletarian silent film movement of the Weimar Republic, Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück was an ambitious attempt by the left-wing Prometheus Film, under Willi Münzenberg, to make a film with a revolutionary stance for a (partly) middle-class mass audience. The film is intended as an authentic study of social milieu; it was largely shot on location, utilises documentary footage and explicitly draws on the works of the Berlin ‘Milljöh’ writer Heinrich Zille. (dw)
In cooperation with the IOIC (Institute of Incoherent Cinematography)
133 mins / b&w / 35 mm / silent film with intertitles
featuring Altin Asllani (piano, electronics), Stephen Thomas (guitar), León Zehnder (guitar) & The Weathereye (drums)
Living in a tenement block in Berlin’s working-class district of Wedding, Mother Krause is desperately trying to scrape together the money needed to keep her family afloat. But her son Paul drinks away what little they have and is also drawn into criminal activities. Meanwhile, her daughter Erna meets Max, a politically active worker. Is there a way out of this misery? As a seminal work of the proletarian silent film movement of the Weimar Republic, Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück was an ambitious attempt by the left-wing Prometheus Film, under Willi Münzenberg, to make a film with a revolutionary stance for a (partly) middle-class mass audience. The film is intended as an authentic study of social milieu; it was largely shot on location, utilises documentary footage and explicitly draws on the works of the Berlin ‘Milljöh’ writer Heinrich Zille. (dw)
In cooperation with the IOIC (Institute of Incoherent Cinematography)
133 mins / b&w / 35 mm / silent film with intertitles
Live music: Murnau’s Head
To this organizer's website
Thursday, November 05, 2026
18:00 - 20:13 o'clock
Live music: Murnau's Head
Director: Phil JutziScreenplay: Willy Döll , Jan Fethke
Cinematography: Phil Jutzi
Cast: Alexandra Schmitt (Mother Krause), Holmes Zimmermann (Paul), Ilse Trautschold (Erna), Gerhard Bienert (subtenant), Vera Sacharowa (prostitute), Friedrich Gnass (Max), Fee Wachsmuth (child)
Filmpodium Kino
Nüschelerstrasse 11
8001 Zürich
+41 (0)44 415 33 66
info@filmpodium.ch
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The cinema is accessible for wheelchairs and equipped with a wireless assistive listening system.
