Terrible Beauty film series
The elephant in a wide variety of roles
Oct. 2021 – Jan. 2022
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| Book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| Wednesdays at 7pm, Sundays at 4pm |
| Tickets to the individual screenings cost 5 EUR, reduced 2,50 EUR. |
| Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
An elephant is an imposing creature – no wonder, that it has so often had the desires of humans projected onto it in films. There is no other animal that has been cast in such a variety of roles.
Its memory is proverbial, its communication system sophisticated, its roles diverse: the Terrible Beauty film series uses selected film examples to show how the elephant, the ‘pachyderm’ known and loved from TV and film, has always been a figure on which humans project their own interpretations and desires. A role which this striking animal not infrequently served was that of the embodiment of existing and outdated clichés of an authentic, strong, wild, indomitable Africa – a different, foreign, exotic but all the more fascinating place. From African Queen to Elephant Boy, from Hatari! to Light of Asia: this film series, commentated on by elephant and film experts from four continents, presents the elephant as a cinematic protagonist in a wide variety of configurations – sometimes cliché-laden, sometimes struggling to leave the clichés behind.