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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

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29 May, 1999 - 00:00

By Lesia GANZHA, The Day

Kyiv is still hosting the New Goethe functions organized by the Goethe
Institute and dedicated to the German genius's 250th anniversary to be
celebrated in August this year. The festivities were opened by Goethe's
perhaps most well-known brainchild - the terrible and mysterious Faust,
a hostage and victim to free choice. The week before last Kyivans were
shown the Faust-Fragment theater production put on by well-known Kyiv director
Dmytro Bohomazov, who interpreted Goethe's tragedy almost as a farce. (Read
the play review in a forthcoming issue). Other versions of this image were
presented during the weekend at the House of Cinematographers. These are
beautiful Faust-theme screen variations from Robert Wiene's expressionist
masterpiece, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), to Czech Jan Schwankmeyer's
surrealist Faust Lecture (1994). And on May 25 the House of Organ
and Chamber Music hosted the literary and musical soiree, Faust Across
the Centuries and Countries, where the image of the tragic voluntarist
was shown as interpreted by Beethoven, Liszt, Reubke, Boito, Gounod, Mussorgsky,
Glinka, as well as Goethe, Pushkin, and Pasternak.

 

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