Saturday 12 september at 20:00

Film Concert: The Mechanic at the Dress Rehearsal

  • Cultural
  • Concert
  • Movie screening
  • Sacred music
Eglise de Sciez, Avenue de l'Eglise, 74140 Sciez

Description

Having already participated in previous film-concert events, Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet once again puts his talent for improvisation to work in a performance of a great classic of 20th-century silent cinema: *Le mécano de la Générale* (1926).
A silent film by Buster Keaton: Railroad worker Johnnie Gray divides his time between his fiancée, Annabelle Lee, and his locomotive, the General. In the midst of the Civil War, he wants to enlist in the Confederate Army, but the army believes he’ll be more useful if he stays on as an engineer. To prove to Annabelle that he is not a coward, he sets out alone in pursuit of Union spies who have captured her and his locomotive...

Rates

Free access.

Opening times

On 12 September 2026
  • 20:00

Location

Film Concert: The Mechanic at the Dress Rehearsal
Eglise de Sciez, Avenue de l'Eglise, 74140 Sciez

Spoken languages

Spoken languages
  • French
Updated on 29 June 2026 at 16:17
by Office de Tourisme intercommunal Destination Léman
(Offer identifier : 7902403)
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