Impressions from the UFA Film Nights 2024

from left: Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe, contemporary witness and Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer and Andrea Sawatzki, patron of the “UFA Film Nights 2024”

Thomas Rabe at the “UFA Filmnächte” reception on the roof terrace of the Bertelsmann representative office Unter den Linden 1

Karin Schlautmann, Head of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications

from left: Producer Wolf Bauer, Karin Schlautmann, Head of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications, and Thomas Rabe

Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe with actress Andrea Sawatzki, patron of the “UFA Film Nights 2024”

Thomas Coesfeld, Member of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann and CEO of BMG

Thomas Rabe (l.) and Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie (r.), with Kandis Williams

From left: Thomas Rabe, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Helen Müller, Head of Cultural Affairs and Corporate History at Bertelsmann, and Karin Schlautmann, Head of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications

Actress Andrea Sawatzki introduced the opening film “Suzy Saxophone” by Carl Lamač from 1928 as film patron of the “UFA Filmnächte”

Actress Florence Kasumba

Actor Jürgen Prochnow with his wife Verena

From left: Annika Kuhl and Leander Haußmann with daughter Kunigunde Kuhl

Inka Friedrich and Hans Werner Meyer

Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, with Kandis Williams

Actress Dennenesch Zoudé

Actor Stephan Grossmann and Clelia Sarto

Natalie Clausen, COO UFA GmbH, Andrea Sawatzki, patron of the UFA Film Nights 2024 and Nataly Kudiabor, GF UFA Fiction

Actress Ulrike Frank with her husband, the composer Marc Schubring

Actor Jürgen Prochnow (center) with his wife Verena and Friedemann Beyer, curator of the “UFA Film Nights”

Around 300 guests attended the opening reception of the “UFA Film Nights 2024”

Actress Andrea Sawatzki performed at the Kolonnadenhof as film patron of the “UFA Film Nights”

Around a thousand silent film fans came to the Colonnade Courtyard on Berlin's Museum Island

The opening film “Suzy Saxophone” by Carl Lamač from 1928

The film orchestra “The Sprockets” provided the musical accompaniment for the opening film “Suzy Saxophone”

Raphael Marionneau, „Stadt der Millionen” (City of Millions)

Film patron Jenni Zylka

Metropolis Orchester Berlin, conducted by Burkhard Götze

Composer Florian Reithner

"Kohlhiesels Töchter" (Kohlhiesels Daughters)

"Ich möchte kein Mann sein" (I don't want to be a man)