Description: The screening of this 1924 silent film by Austrian director H.K. Breslauer is accompanied with live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin. Based on the dystopian book by Hugo Bettauer, it is a chilling premonition of the Holocaust.

PRESENTED BY A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AND THE NYS WRITERS INSTITUTE