Donald Sosin on Piano
Lecture by Stefan Drössler

Stefan Drössler is the director of the Munich Filmmuseum. An expert on the history of German cinema as well as film restoration, he has worked on the restoration of Max Ophuls's Lola Montes and a reconstructed long version of Orson Welles's Journey into Fear, among other projects.

Stefan Drössler presents an illustrated lecture on Lubitsch's career, focusing on his last two years in Germany and his subsequent move to Hollywood. The centerpiece of the talk is a reconstruction of Lubitsch's last German film, Die Flamme (a.k.a. Montmartre), which stars Pola Negri as a Montmartre cocotte who falls for a composer, marries him, but finds herself unable to adjust to his way of life. Also featured are excerpts from Das Weib des Pharao (1922) and rare fragments from The Patriot (1928).