Der grüne Kakadu

With live music by Wiener Brut

Made in an Ottakring film club in 1932, THE GREEN KAKADU by Franz Hohenberger is the only surviving feature-length amateur silent film from that period. Katharina Hohenberger, the director's granddaughter, has written new music for the film with her band Wiener Brut and composer Sascha Peres - with an enormous variety of styles ranging from Heurigen music to Bartók - which is now being performed live for the first time. A real Viennese film adventure and an exciting piece of family history!

The suburban pub Zum grünen Kakadu looks exactly how you would imagine an ill-reputed pub to look, and is the setting for a fateful and intricate love story involving alcohol, card games and petty crime. Kitty, the landlord's foster daughter and a pure soul in this otherwise dodgy place, is the unwitting heir to a considerable fortune that her guardian is only too keen to appropriate for himself. Red Jim, a particularly dangerous regular, gets wind of this and now also has his eye on her. Rescue comes from an unexpected quarter, namely in the form of a tramp ... As the only surviving feature-length amateur silent film from this period, THE GREEN KAKADU is a true rarity, full of history(s) - and exciting views of old Vienna.