Monaco:  The beer Putsch and the beer festival.
“The beer putsch” and “La fête de la bière”: two clichés which have influenced the Bavarian capital’s image the whole world over. Hitler’s march to the Feldherrenhalle on the 9th of November 1923 fastly linked the historical image of Monaco to the nationalsocialist movement. And during the Oktoberfest – the last week in September – Munich is the maximum attraction for the American and Japanese tourists. The two Münchner Filmmuseum programmes also deal with films which illustrate the local history of the century of cinema, both films and documentaries, cinenews clips, amateur films, unmounted takes with no sound track of all types.
1. The movement capital. This was the first official title that Munich had during the third Reich period. The programme documents the changeover from the revolution after the war, when Munich, in 1919 was a “Soviet Republic” for several weeks, through to the fall of the latter, up to the transformation of the city into a hub of nationalistic reaction which prepared for the power taking on behalf of the nazis. It was, in reality, a deceitful power-taking. Munich, thanks to Hitler, was also the “city of German art”, where the national socialist architecture first flourished.
2. Film on Oktoberfest. This festival is closely linked to the history of cinema in Munich. In 1896 the first cinematographic projection was shown, this was organised by Societé Lumière; and since the beginning of the century, Munich’s film adepts from Karl Valentin to Herbert Achternbusch (Bierkampf) have been fascinated by the Oktoberfest. Films on the Oktoberfest reflect the development of cinema, from silent black and white up to colour scope, as does the evolution of the festival itself, from a local festival to an international drinking contest