5th of November at 20:00 Eden für Jeden | Eden for all | Film
When her apartment is terminated, student Nelly moves with her slightly demented grandmother to her plot in the community garden. Inspired and supported by her enamored neighbor, she sets off to fight the pedantic president of the family garden, Franco, and unwittingly shakes the well-kept secret that once divided her family - and which had its beginning in the colorful and multicultural community garden world.
Director: Rolf Lyssy - 2020 – 90‘, Switzerland Genre: Fiction, Comedy
Cast: Steffi Friis, Heidi Diggelmann, Andreas Matti, Marc Sway, Pablo Aguilar, Suly Röthlisberger, Hans Suter, René Ander- Huber, Fiamma Camesi, Antonio Da Silva, Marina Navarrete
Language: Swiss German with English subtitles
Free entrance (tickets must be obtained in advance).
16th of November at 20:00, Und Morgen die Ganze Welt | And Tomorrow The Entire World | Film
Luisa, a first-year law student, leaves her conservative family background behind and becomes a member of a rag-tag collective of Antifa activists. As disagreements flare up between the more moderate and the hot-blooded for action, Louisa is faced with a critical question: is violence justified in the fight against fascism? A political drama that explores the intersections between personal motivations and political beliefs.
The film was Germany's official entry for the 2021 Best International Feature Film and won the Best Director Award (German Film Academy).
Directed by: Julia von Heinz
Screenplay: Julia von Heinz, John Quester
Cast: Mala Emde, Noah Saveedra, Tonio Schneider, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas Lust
Free entrance (Tickets must be obtained in advance).
26th of November at 20:00, The Magical world of Lieder
| Closing Concert of the Weeks of the German Language 2022
A recital dedicated to the Magical World of Lieder will close this year’s Weeks of the German Language, on November 26th at Rialto Theatre in Limassol.
The recital is an on-stage musical collaboration between Cypriot sopranos Chryso Makariou and Mariza Anastasiadiou who have proven through their performances, their love and devotion to the delicate but also contemplative world of the scholarly song, the Lied.
Together with pianist Ζbynek Maruska, they share with the audience the great compositions of Brahms, Schubert, and Strauß and poetry by J.W. von Goethe, H. Heine. H. Hart and other german-language poets, with their words have illuminated the aesthetic direction of the romantic music of the 19th century.
The program is enriched with works for piano by Swiss composer Jοachim Raff and by Ludwig van Beethoven. The musicians are also accompanied by actor and director Achilleas Grammatikopoulos, who makes his mark with two-way communication between the spoken word and music.
This tribute to the German-language song/Lied is organized by the Embassies of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland in Cyprus.
Free entrance (Tickets must be obtained in advance).
Info www.rialto.com.cy
Box Office: 77 77 77 45
(Mon-Fri 10:00-15:00 and 1,5 hour before the performance)