Event

THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

Anything But Silent: Silent Classics with Live Music

THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
Starring Conrad Veidt (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Thief of Bagdad, Casablanca)
Tuesday, October 26 at 7:30pm â¢ Members $9 / Public $13

One of the silent era's great horror films, The Man Who Laughs features a masterful
performance by Conrad Veidt (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and haunting cinematography
Live Musical Accompaniment by Ben Model on the Cinema's Miditzer Theater Organ!

With The Man Who Laughs, two luminaries of German Expressionism - director
Paul Leni (Cat and the Canary) and actor Conrad Veidt (Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, Casablanca), introduced a new and highly influential aesthetic to American
movies. The film stars Veidt as Gwynplaine, the son of an aristocrat who is kidnapped
for political reasons before being disfigured by a gypsy surgeon, who leaves the
boy's face paralyzed in a contorted smile. Finding refuge in a traveling theatre troupe,
Gwynplaine's lineage is eventually discovered and he soon finds himself being
pulled back into the social and political world he was taken from as a boy. Featuring
a masterful performance from Veidt along with beautiful and haunting photography, The
Man Who Laughs is one of the silent era's great horror films. USA, 1928, 110min., b/w