“The definitive restoration of F.W. Murnau’s silent classic ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’ opened the 40th edition of Italy’s Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival on Saturday, with some 7,000 spectators packing Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore square to catch the 1927 masterpiece accompanied by a new score performed live by the Teatro Comunale di Bologna orchestra”.

Music composed and conducted by Timothy Brock and performed by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. The screening was introduced by Robert Byrne, Kathy Rose O’Regan and Marco Bellocchio.
Restoration presented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.