Silent Movie with Live Music: Christus

St. Johns Chapel of Church of the Redeemer, Muristan Road 5, Old City, Jerusalem

Film music improvised on the Steinway grand piano by Peter-Michael Seifried

Giulio Cesare Antamaro's film, with the programmatically short title Cristo (ITA 1916) is an exceptional example of a silent film about Jesus. It not only recounts the life story of Je-sus Christ in a level of detail that remains deeply moving even today, but also does so with unusual references to religious imagery. Christus was a costly and highly ambitious Italian film project, filmed on location in Egypt with great effort. Filming for Christus li-kely began in the summer of 1913 and was particularly problematic during the First World War. Even before Christus was screened a second time for the censors and finally for the public, it was shown to 15 cardinals at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, who gave the film their unqualified approval.

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