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Things to Come (Film)

A 100-year period in the southern English town of Everytown, told through the stories of the Cabal family and Dr. Harding: War breaks out on Christmas Day 1940; it will continue for decades. The war machines become more advanced, the bombs more destructive, the poison gas more deadly. Civilization lies in ruins. In the 1970s, a warlord rules over the city, which now resembles a medieval town. A group of radical pacifists stands up to him…

One of the most significant and influential science fiction films, based on the novel by H. G. Wells: Between the dystopia of war and the pacifists’ belief in progress, a vision of the future emerges in fascinating imagery.

Introduction: Dr. Peter Bär

Director: William Cameron Menzies
United Kingdom, 1936, German version, 88 min., FSK rating: n/a

[PLEASE NOTE: This film will be shown in the German version without subtitles.]

Cinema: Cinema Quadrat, K1, 2, 68159 Mannheim

Admission:
€10 regular admission
€7 reduced admission
€6 for members of Cinema Quadrat e.V.

Tickets available online or at the box office.
cinema-quadrat.de/imagine-futures



Film Series: “Futures of Yesterday”

“Imagine Futures!” asks: What futures do we envision? At Cinema Quadrat, we look back at film history and show futures from yesterday: Rarely seen treasures of the science-fiction genre look ahead from the perspective of their time: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ›World on a Wire‹ anticipates ›The Matrix‹ by decades with its nightmarish exploration of reality and simulation. ›Things to Come‹ depicts the next 100 years of human history, starting in 1936. George Lucas’s debut film ›THX 1138‹ tells the story of a dystopian, deindividualized world. And the animated film ›Fantastic Planet‹ is a hallucinatory trip into the alien universe.