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My Grandmother (15*)

Silent Film & Live Music

,Cinema 1
A woman hugs her husband with a deranged look in her eyes

In this madcap Soviet-era satire a lazy bureaucrat is fired from his job and must find a ‘grandmother’ – slang for ‘benefactor’ – to help him back into work. 

This one-of-a-kind oddity has all kinds of avant-garde experimentation on display: stop-motion and hand-drawn animation bits of puppetry, expressionist décor, distorting lenses, looming angles, freeze-frames. 

And while the Harold Lloyd-esque pen-pusher may be the film’s protagonist, it is his assertive, wild-haired, wildly consumerist wife who steals the show.  

Watch the film here in digital restoration, with a live a live accompaniment by Stephen Horne and Meg Morley.  

Tagged with: Cinema Members' Priority Booking Silent Film & Live Music

Please note: contains scenes of suicide. 

Film information
  • Release year   1929
  • Country of origin   USSR
  • Director   Kote Mikaberidze
  • Runtime   1hr 1min

Ticket prices

Standard
£15.50
* Excludes £1.50 booking fee

Booking fees

£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.

No fee when tickets are booked in person.

Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.

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Cinema 1

Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.   

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
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