Restored Niblo, Lamprecht, and Dwan Films to be Screened in Berlin Next Year

New restorations of Fred Niblo's The Mark of Zorro (1920), Allan Dwan's The Iron Mask (1929), and Gerhard Lamprecht's Under the Lantern (1928) will be screened at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival next year. The screenings will be part of a new retrospective entitled "The Aesthetics of Shadow. Lighting Styles 1915–1950".

Deutsche Kinemathek will be curating the retrospective together with The Museum of Modern Art.

The films that will be screened at the Berlinale will later on be shown in New York as well.

The festival's organizers have also announced that a book in German, entitled "Ästhetik der Schatten. Filmisches Licht 1915–1950", will be published for the retrospective. In it, Daisuke Miyao, Kevin Brownlow, Karl Prümm and other authors address aesthetic and technical developments of lighting styles in Japan, Germany and the USA.

The retrospective will include some 40 silent and sound films that will focus on various lighting styles.

Following the official press release for the upcoming retrospective, Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick siad: "We admire films such as Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, but for the most part we don't know the names of the cameramen and lighting technicians who, in a team with the director, create these superb worlds of light and shadow for us. In 2014 the Retrospective will illuminate these works."