On Friday, April the 16. the movie "Legong -- dance of the virgins" from 1935 is shown at the film-museum in Munich. The film (2-colour technicolor), directed by Henri de la Falaise, is about a beautiful but quite jealous balinese temple-dancer who falls in love with a gamelan-musician. But alas, the musician is in love with her sister ... Along with Vicki Baum's 1937 novel "Tale of Bali", "Legong" is another gem of an early artistic/ethnographic view on Balinese society. In contrast to Baum's novel, the film is hardly known and seldomly seen. The film-museum shows it during a Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-retrospective. During the retrospective other early films of the south-seas will be shown, too: "Bali -- Insel der Dämonen" (1931/33, directed by Murnau, ethnological adviser: Viktor von Plessen and the painter Walter Spies of balinese fame); "Tabu" (1929/31, directed by Murnau). You can download the program-table and the retrospective-leaflet as .pdf-files. "Legong" starts at 21:00h, admission is free.

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