DESCRIPTION:
Joris Ivens (1898-1989): Regen (pioggia) (1929) documentario con musiche di Hanns Eisler (1898-1962).

Regen (Rain) is a 1929 documentary by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. It is a little over 12 minutes long. There isn't really a "plot" per se, but the film captures 1920's Amsterdam before, during, and after a downpour. The quality of the images is quite good in this restored version which uses Hanns Eisler's music, "14 Arten den Regen zu beschreiben", Op. 70 (1941) (Fourteen Ways of Describing the Rain).
This new musical score from 1941 (for the 1932 version of this documentary - for which Lou Lichtveld had already written a score -) is quite interesting in itself, not only because Eisler dedicated it to his old teacher Arnold Schoenberg.