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Cora Frost
Zaza (with Gloria Swanson)
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Sometimes a city urchin and ragamuffin princess disaffected by life, sometimes a diva with the most beautiful looks since Marlene Dietrich, she is the most enigmatic of today's diseuses.
Cora Frost is an emotional quick-change artist "possibly the biggest and most threatening that could happen to German cabaret", writes the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "I am who I am", says Cora Frost about herself and lets her audiences share this, as she sings about the little things of life or, with her unique voice, lends personality to the whirl of anonymous big city life. Since 1987, the Berlin-based Cora Frost has been on tour throughout Germany, made eleven CDs (both speech and song) and, in 1996/1997, was awarded the German Cabaret Prize in the Chanson category.
The artistic spectrum she covers is as versatile as her appearance and her voice. For Cora Frost is not just a singer and a dancer with many years of performing experience. She has also gained attention as a theatre and cinema actress — in Rudolf Thomés's TIGER STRIPED BABY WAITS FOR TARZAN, for example, and in ESCAPE TO LIFE by Weiland Speck and Andrea Weiss. In 1998, she published texts and songs in her book “My Body Is A Hotel”. She also writes song lyrics for Tim Fischer and Georgette Dee, two popular German cabaret performers. She has held lectures on song interpretation and emceed the Night Saloon at "Bar Jeder Vernunft", the legendary Berlin cabaret club. Along with Katja Riemann, she's currently starring in Clare Boothe Luce's THE WOMEN at the Maxim Gorky Theatre in Berlin. The piece (with its 40 roles for women only) was made famous by George Cukor's 1939 screen adaptation of the same name.
At this year's festival, Cora Frost (and her musicians) will be accompanying a silent movie for the first time — ZAZA (1923) in which Gloria Swanson gives a "virtuoso example of comic acting". The encounter between diva Cora Frost and vamp Gloria Swanson promises to one of the festival's highlights!
The Film:
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ZAZA
[Allan Dwan, USA 1923, 88‘] |
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