Film Screening : Love and Duty (1931)
Geneva, HEM Movie theater, 2 rue du Général-Dufour.
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Directed by Bu Wancang and starring Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan, the 1931 movie Love and Duty (恋爱义务) was long considered lost, before being rediscovered in the BSI holdings in Uruguay in the 1990s. Wonderfully restored by the Taiwan and Audiovisual Institute, the film was almost immediately hailed as one of the greatest Chinese silent films. The screening will be accompanied by musicians from HEM Silk and Bamboo Ensemble
Concert : Chinese Musical and Theatrical performances in Europe, 1920-1950
Geneva, Théâtre les Salons, 2 rue Bartholoni.
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Chinese Musical and Theatrical performances in Europe, 1920-1950
This concert draws its program from musical and theatrical performances that took place in Switzerland and in other European countries at the time of the Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale and in the period immediately preceding it. Scenes from Chinese Opera will be performed by Maestro Hu Wenge and musicians from the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing. Various ensemble from HEM will play Chinese instrumental and vocal music performed in Switzerland and Europe at that time.
Prebooking available here.
Film screening : Yulan, the destiny of a Chinese schoolgirl (1929-1930)
Geneva, HEM Movie theater, 2 rue du Général-Dufour.
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Yulan, la destinée d’une écolière chinoise / Yülan. Das Schicksal einer Chinesische Schülerin,
Silent film with French and German intertitles, 60 min.
From: [camera: Friedrich Paulmann, Berlin ?]
This film is an adaptation of a feature film shot by an operator from the Berliner Missionsfilm-Genossenschaft (Berlin Mission Film Department) set up at the request of the Basel Missions. It tells the story of Yulan, a Chinese student forced by her family to marry a young man who turns out to be an inveterate gambler. Yulan is one of the ‘possessions’ he pawns and, after another losing game, she is forced to surrender herself to a new ‘husband’. But she prefers to run away and take refuge at the Mission, then convert and become a missionary herself. During a tour of the countryside, Yulan finds her husband, who has fallen into total desolation, and brings him to the Mission.
Concert : Chinese Musical and Theatrical performances in Europe, 1920-1950
Neuchâtel, Haute école de musique, Espace de l’Europe 21.
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Chinese Musical and Theatrical performances in Europe, 1920-1950
This concert draws its program from musical and theatrical performances that took place in Switzerland and in other European countries at the time of the Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale and in the period immediately preceding it. Scenes from Chinese Opera will be performed by Maestro Hu Wenge and musicians from the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing. Various ensemble from HEM will play Chinese instrumental and vocal music performed in Switzerland and Europe at that time.