Impressions from the UFA Film Nights 2023

Actor and film patron Dominique Horwitz with the hosts of the UFA Film Nights 2023, Karin Schlautmann, Head of Corporate Communications at Bertelsmann, and Nico Hofmann, CEO of UFA

Actress Martina Gierlich and actor Lucas Lentes

Actor Maximilian von Pufendorf

Actress Adriana Altaras with actor Joachim Król

Laura von Wangenheim (l.) with escort. The writer is the granddaughter of Gustav von Wangenheim, one of the actors from the opening film “Schatten” (1923)

Actress Ina Paule Klinke with director Roland Suso Richter

(left to right): Berlin Film Festival directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek with Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation director Christiane von Wahlert and artistic director of the Deutsche Kinemathek, Dr. Rainer Rother

Actress Henny Reents

Actor Dominique Horwitz (l.), film patron of the UFA Film Nights 2023, and Friedemann Beyer, curator of the silent film festival

Actresses Anna (l.) and Katharina Thalbach

Approximately 300 guests attended the opening reception of the UFA Film Nights 2023 on the rooftop terrace of Bertelsmann Unter den Linden 1 in Berlin

Actor Hans-Werner Meyer with actress Ina Paule Klinke

About a thousand fans of silent film came to the Kolonnadenhof courtyard of Berlin’s Museum Island to see the opening film, Arthur Robison’s “Schatten” (Warning Shadows) from 1923

About a thousand fans of silent film came to the Kolonnadenhof courtyard of Berlin’s Museum Island to see the opening film, Arthur Robison’s “Schatten” (Warning Shadows) from 1923

About a thousand fans of silent film came to the Kolonnadenhof courtyard of Berlin’s Museum Island to see the opening film, Arthur Robison’s “Schatten” (Warning Shadows) from 1923

The silent film “Shadows” was accompanied live by organist Cameron Carpenter, who has for years been thrilling the music world with his virtuoso performances

Carlo Chatrian, artistic director of the Berlin Film Festival, and Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of the Berlin Film Festival

Karin Schlautmann, Head of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications, welcomed the 300 or so guests at the UFA Film Nights 2023 reception at Bertelsmann Unter den Linden 1 in Berlin

UFA CEO Nico Hofmann welcomed the 300 or so guests at the UFA Film Nights 2023 reception at Bertelsmann Unter den Linden 1 in Berlin

UFA CEO Nico Hofmann and Karin Schlautmann, Head of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications, with actor Joachim Król

Shobhna Mohn, Chief Strategy Officer of Bertelsmann Investments, at the UFA Film Nights 2023 kick-off reception

Singer and entertainer Max Raabe with actor Joachim Król

Actor Johann von Bülow

Actor Dominique Horwitz, as film patron of the UFA Film Nights, provided the historical context for Arthur Robison’s 1923 opening film “Schatten” at the Kolonnadenhof courtyard

Actress Katharina Thalbach with UFA CEO Nico Hofmann

Dirk Kemmerer, CEO of Bertelsmann Marketing Services

Actress Sinje Irslinger

Actors Patrik Cieslik (l.) and Ludwig Brix

Shobhna Mohn, Chief Strategy Officer of Bertelsmann Investments, with daughter Annika Mohn

The hosts of the UFA Film Nights (left to right) UFA CEO Nico Hofmann and Bertelsmann Head of Communications Karin Schlautmann with actor Joachim Król

Actor and film patron Dominique Horwitz (l.) with director Roland Suso Richter

Actor Paul Frielinghaus and actress Isabella Parkinson

Actor Ludger Pistor

Friedemann Beyer, curator of the silent film festival, welcomes the audience to the second film

Friedemann Beyer, curator of the silent film festival, with Christiane von Wahlert, Executive Director of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation

The second silent film of the UFA Film Nights 2023, “WO IST COLETTI?,” was accompanied live by the Metropolis Orchestra Berlin under Burkhard Götze

The second silent film screened at the UFA Film Nights 2023, “WO IST COLETTI?,” was accompanied live by the Metropolis Orchestra Berlin under Burkhard Götze

The third silent film of the UFA Film Nights 2023, “DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER II,” was accompanied live by Moritz von Oswald, musician, music producer, DJ, and electronic music pioneer

The third silent film of the UFA Film Nights 2023, “DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER II,” was accompanied live by Moritz von Oswald, musician, music producer, DJ, and pioneer of electronic music

The third silent film featured at the UFA Film Nights 2023, “DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER II,” was accompanied live by Moritz von Oswald, musician, music producer, DJ, and pioneer of electronic music