The Overcoat – with Alloy Orchestra – live!

Closing Night Event
The Overcoat – with Alloy Orchestra – live!
The Film Festival welcomes back Boston’s Alloy Orchestra. For 20 years they’ve performed their original scores for silent films. Recently they acquired a gorgeous new print of this gem from a Moscow film archive. The film – adapted from the famous parable by Nikolai Gogol – is the story of an impoverished bureaucrat who’s teased by the younger clerks about his threadbare overcoat. So he scrimps and saves, and becomes obsessed with buying an elegant new coat that will finally make him feel important. But he does not foresee the misfortune this will bring him. Don’t miss this beautifully rendered masterpiece enhanced by Alloy’s exciting live score. (1924; 65min) Presented in collaboration with the Russian Film
Symposium (University of Pittsburgh).