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Vertigo (70mm)
* nonstop cinema subscription valid (€ 2,50.- surcharge)
Online purchase only - reservations possible at kino@gartenbaukino.at
70mm screening!
Because police officer John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) was in mortal danger while chasing a criminal across the rooftops of San Francisco and had to watch a colleague who rushed to his aid lose his life, he can no longer take part in active police duty. Marked by this traumatic experience and plagued by feelings of guilt, he quits the force and retires.
But one day Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), a former school friend of John's, turns up and asks him for help: he is to shadow Gavin's wife Madeleine (Kim Novak). She is behaving increasingly strangely and seems to be under a strange influence, which Gavin believes to be Madeleine's deceased great-grandmother. She had committed suicide many years earlier at the age of 26. Madeleine increasingly dresses and behaves like her deceased relative and is also celebrating her 26th birthday in a few days' time. Gavin and John suspect the worst and want to prevent it at all costs...
Camera technology plays an important role in VERTIGO, as Hitchcock used a special camera effect as a stylistically defining cinematic device - the famous “Vertigo effect”. The camera moves back and zooms into the picture at the same time. This changes the spatial perception: the foreground remains stable while the background shifts dramatically. This effect creates a feeling of dizziness or disorientation - exactly what Hitchcock's hero experiences in VERTIGO when his fear of heights overcomes him.
When VERTIGO was released in 1958, it received only mixed reviews. After five decades, the film has since replaced CITIZEN KANE as the best film of all time in the “Sight & Sound” ranking.