Impressions from the movie premiere and the reception at Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO, Thomas Rabe, and conductor Frank Strobel

As many as 500 guests attended the post-premiere reception hosted by Bertelsmann at its “Unter den Linden 1” premises

Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO, Thomas Rabe (m.), with actors Sebastian Koch (l.) and Burghart Klaußner (r.)

Composer Cornelius Schwehr and his daughter at the premiere of the digitally restored silent movie by Fritz Lang, “Destiny,” which was accompanied by music performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Joined forces for the silent movie restoration (from left): Gottfried Langenstein, Frank Strobel, Anke Wilkening, Rainer Rother, Ernst Szebedits, Cornelius Schwehr and Thomas Rabe

Celebrity architect David Chipperfield (l.) with his wife, Evelyne Stern, and actor Sebastian Koch

UFA Co-CEO, Wolf Bauer, and Ernst Elitz, Founding Director of Deutschlandradio

Rainer Rother, Berlinale Head of Restropective, introducing the silent movie, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in the background

Entertainer and silent movie aficionado Max Raabe and actor Burghart Klaußner

Arvato CEO, Fernando Carro, and Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO, Thomas Rabe, with conductor Frank Strobel

Ernst Szebedits, Chairman of the Murnau Foundation, introducing the silent movie, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in the background

Not a single spare seat: tickets for the premiere of the restored silent movie classic “Destiny” had sold out in no time

Chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann, Thomas Rabe (r.), and the Ambassador of Luxembourg, H.E. Georges Santer, and his wife, Christiane Hallé, in the main hall of the Friedrichstadt-Palast

UFA Co-CEO, Wolf Bauer, and Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO, Thomas Rabe (r.), at Bertelsmann “Unter den Linden 1”

Natascha Ochsenknecht at the Bertelsmann reception

Publisher Christiane zu Salm and Bertelsmann Board member Markus Dohle, CEO of the world’s leading book publisher Penguin Random House

Nearly a century after its first screening, the digitally restored version of “Destiny,” by “Metropolis” director Fritz Lang, premiered for the second time. It was accompanied by new film music performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by

Actor Sebastian Koch at the Bertelsmann reception

Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO, Thomas Rabe, and photographer Jim Rakete

Premiere of the restored Fritz Lang classic “Destiny” at the Friedrichstadt-Palast: a highlight of the Berlinale Classics program

Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO, Thomas Rabe, and the Director General of Berlin State Library, Barbara

Busy reception at Bertelsmann after the successful movie premiere at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin

Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, Prof. Dr. Michael Eissenhauer, and his wife at the Bertelsmann reception

Premiere of the restored Fritz Lang classic “Destiny” at the Friedrichstadt-Palast: a highlight of the Berlinale Classics program

Roll it: nearly a century after its first screening, the digitally restored version of “Destiny,” by “Metropolis” director Fritz Lang, premiered for the second time

Joined forces for the silent movie restoration (from left): Gottfried Langenstein (Vice President ARTE), Rainer Rother (Berlinale Head of Retrospective), Thomas Rabe (Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO) and Ernst Szebedits (Chairman of the Murnau Foundation)