An evening full of cinematic history -- Monsieur Verdoux, Citizen Kane and Modern Times, three classics of the Hollywood Legends Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin.

6:00 p.m. Modern Times

Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) is an unforgettable, radical critique of the modern lifestyle.

The silent film classic will be accompanied live on piano by Martin Hybler.

8:00 p.m. Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux (1947) is a bitterly dark commedy, set in Paris, about a women's murderer and marriage fraud based loosely on the French mass murderer Henri Desire Landru. We welcome Ingo Putz from the Theater Zittau as our guest, who will - fitting for the evening - introduce the current theater piece slapstick.

10:00 p.m. Citizen Cane

Many consider Orson Welles' Citizen Kane to be the best film of all times; it tells of the life of the mysterious millionaire Foster Kane and his longing for Rosebud.

This evening is presented in cooperation with the Gerhart Hauptmann-Theater Zittau/Görlitz and the Deutsch-Amerikanischen Institut Sachsen e.V.