Live Cinema: Sunrise: Film with live music

Fri, Jan 22, 2027 at 7:30pm

About this event

François Truffaut described Sunrise as «the most beautiful film in the world».
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s first American feature film, for which he was given carte blanche across the Atlantic, juxtaposes, through its characters and settings, the two worlds between which the hero is torn. Timothy Brock, conducting the Luxembourg Philharmonic, composed the musical score.
Production Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg in collaboration with the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the Philharmonie

The music: Film: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: réalisation; Carl Mayer: scénario (d’après Hermann Sudermann); Timothy Brock: musique
The artists: Luxembourg Philharmonic; Timothy Brock (conductor)

Summary

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A live cinema experience pairing Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's classic silent film Sunrise with a symphonic score performed live. The Luxembourg Philharmonic, conducted by Timothy Brock, who also composed the score, accompanies the 1927 masterpiece in the Grand Auditorium. The film runs without break and runs about 100 minutes.