In the 1920s Horacio Coppola studied modern languages, photography and film, set up the first cinema club in Buenos Aires, and travelled to Italy, France, Spain and Germany, where he trained with the Bauhaus photographer Walter Peterhans. After visiting Vienna, Budapest and Prague, still hotbeds of secessionist art, Coppola returned to Berlin and made the experimental film Traum (Dream, 1933) with the theatre director Walter Auerbach, a nice short influenced by the French & German surrealists.
Cinematography
Peterhans' Bauhaus precision collides with surrealist chaos.
Direction
Coppola & Auerbach pack a feature's worth of dread into 120 seconds.
Director
Horacio Coppola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Coppola made this months before fleeing Nazi Germany, carrying Bauhaus methods back to Argentina where he'd become the father of modern Argentine photography.
The film was lost for decades until a single print surfaced in a Buenos Aires archive in the 1990s—most Coppola scholars had assumed it was apocryphal.
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