Shinel (Der Mantel)

A famous and excellent piece of expressionist cinema, set in a dreamlike scene and completely stylized by Leonid Trauberg and Grigoriy Kozintsev, the inventor-directors of the "Factory of the Eccentric Actor" (FEKS) in St. Petersburg. The night is endless, the shadows demonic black, the snow gloomy white, the decor menacing, the gestures exhilarated, the emotional eruption in the faces acrobatic. Gogol's coat in a film that handles artificiality to such an extreme as if it were a fantastic caricature of itself. Instead of understatement: exaggeration. Instead of decency: long live expression! Vivat eccentricity! (Harry Tomicek)

Franz Reisecker's new setting of Shinel, commissioned by the Film Museum in 2014, will be performed live by Franz Reisecker (electric guitar, synthesizer) and Didi Kern (drums).

Photo: Austrian Film Museum