Congress of Vienna (in San Francisco)

11-07-2006 - DER KONGRESS TANZT / The Congress Dances
Posted: 24 Oct 2006 05:43 PM CDT
We continue our Sound Film Classics with DER KONGRESS TANZT, a film from 1931 by German director Erik Charell, who used the historical Congress of Vienna as a brackdrop for a love story staged halfway between a musical and an operetta.

Vienna 1815: The city is full of excitement. After Napoleon's defeat, statesmen and Princes from all over Europe have gathered for a congress. Chaired by the Austrian foreign minister Metternich, the assembly will decide upon the new political order in Europe. Standing in the cheering crowd gathered to welcome the Russian Tsar Alexander is Christel, a young glove maker, who greets the Tsar's open carriage with a bouquet of flowers. The police assumes an assassination attempt and arrests the young woman but instead of 25 strokes with the rod she ends up in the arms of the Tsar.

(Germany 1931, 97min, German with English subtitles)

Suggested donation: $5

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November 7, 2006
Starts at 07:30 PM

Venue Information
Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
530 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

Additional Event Information
415 263 8760
http://www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco