03/09/2026
17. StummFilmLiveFestival ALLES GRATIS-außer Orchester
100 JAHRE
We are ready for
GRAND OPENING TODAY Sept 3 with
100 YEARS of BUSTER KEATON‘s THE GENERAL
live with Babylon Orchester Berlin , conductor Timothy Brock
ALL FILMS FOR FREE EXCEPT ORCHESTRA & GRASS (live Peyman Yazdanian on the piano and Adib Rostami on the kamancheh and tonbak)
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03. -13. September 11 DAYS, 18 international Musicians, One Orchestra Babylon Orchester Berlin
1926 - 2026 -100 YEARS
To mark the centenary of Buster Keaton’s *The General*, the renowned silent film conductor and composer Timothy Brock has created a new arrangement, co-commissioned by Babylon, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and Ensemble Concordanze.
One of the greatest motion pictures ever made.
Buster Keaton’s 1926 masterpiece, The General
The General [OmU] USA 1926, R: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman mit Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Henry Smith, 79 Min
A must-watch a century later:
Long before CGI or green screens, Keaton performed all his own death-defying stunts. Whether he is running along the roof of a moving steam engine, chopping wood on a moving cowcatcher, or narrowly avoiding a stray railroad tie, there are no camera tricks—it is pure, raw physical dedication
Unforgettable is The Most Expensive Shot in Silent History: Keaton insisted on authentic realism. (Attention Spoiler)
For the film’s climax, he built a real timber bridge and drove an actual, full-sized steam locomotive across it as it burned, crashing it into the river bed below. It remains one of the most spectacularly expensive and iconic practical effects ever captured on film
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