Impressions from the UFA Film Nights 2019

Actor Marc Hosemann

Actor Dominic Raacke

Completely sold out: Around a thousand guests came to the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin's Museum Island to watch the opening film EINE TOLLE NACHT, accompanied by the film orchestra The Sprockets.

Uwe Ochsenknecht presents the film orchestra The Sprockets, which provided the musical accompaniment to the film

Completely sold out: Around a thousand guests came to the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin's Museum Island to watch the opening film EINE TOLLE NACHT, accompanied by the film orchestra The Sprockets.

Completely sold out: Around a thousand guests came to the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin's Museum Island to watch the opening film EINE TOLLE NACHT, accompanied by the film orchestra The Sprockets.

The actress Inka Friedrich

Ernst Szebedits, Chairman of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, in conversation

Actor Dominic Raacke

DJ legend Jeff Mills, who set Fritz Lang's science fiction epic WOMAN IN THE MOON to music for the UFA Film Nights 2019

Actor Uwe Ochsenknecht, who introduced the opening movie at the UFA Film Nights 2019

Actor Uwe Ochsenknecht introduces the opening film A CRAZY NIGHT (original German title EINE TOLLE NACHT)

Uwe Ochsenknecht with Karin Schlautmann, Executive Vice President of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications, and UFA CEO Nico Hofmann

Karin Schlautmann, Executive Vice President of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications, welcomes the approximately 400 guests of the UFA Film Power Reception on the roof terrace of Bertelsmann's Berlin Representative Office

The actress Anna Schumacher with UFA producer Jörg Winger

DJ Jeff Mills set the silent movie WOMAN IN THE MOON to music

Completely sold out: Around a thousand guests came to the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin's Museum Island to watch the opening film EINE TOLLE NACHT, accompanied by the film orchestra The Sprockets.

The Deputy Head of the Office of the Federal President, Dr. Angelika Schlunck

Prof. Susanne Stürmer, President of the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, in conversation

from left: UFA CEO Nico Hofmann, RBB director Patricia Schlesinger, and producer Wolf Bauer

from left: H.E. the Ambassador of Belgium Baron Willem Van de Voorde, Baroness Dr. Kristin Van de Voorde, H.E. the Ambassador of Luxembourg Jean Graff, and Alejandra Graff

Uwe Ochsenknecht with Karin Schlautmann, Executive Vice President of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications, and UFA CEO Nico Hofmann

Completely sold out: Around a thousand guests came to the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin's Museum Island to watch the opening film EINE TOLLE NACHT, accompanied by the film orchestra The Sprockets.

Felix Krieger, conductor and artistic director of the Berliner Operngruppe, with Sarah Tys-man

The Deputy Head of the Office of the Federal President, Dr. Angelika Schlunck

Completely sold out: Around a thousand guests came to the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin's Museum Island to watch the opening film EINE TOLLE NACHT, accompanied by the film orchestra The Sprockets.

The Berlin-based silent film and jazz musician Ekkehard Wölk and his Ensemble Ancien Régime accompanied the performance with a mix of French Baroque classical music and sublime contemporary jazz.

The UFA Film Nights 2019 conclude with Ernst Lubitsch's film MADAME DUBARRY (1918/19)

The UFA Film Nights on the Kolonnadenhof in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie

DJ legend Jeff Mills played the accompaniment to FRAU IM MOND live

The second evening of the UFA Filmnächte 2019 featured a screening of Fritz Lang's 1929 masterpiece WOMAN IN THE MOON (Original German title: FRAU IM MOND)

The curator of the UFA Film Nights, Friedemann Beyer, gave a short introduction

The magnificent backdrop: Museum Island