Paul McGann Image Credit: Pamela GentileMusical accompaniment by the Matti Bye Ensemble with intertitle narration by Paul McGannThe Matti Bye Ensemble seeks that magical, emotional alchemy between music and images, playing a wide variety of instruments that include piano, glockenspiel, violin, musical saw and percussion. It is led by award-winning film composer Matti Bye, who has been the Swedish Film Institute's resident silent-movie pianist since 1989. In addition to Bye, the ensemble members include Helena Espvall, Kristian Holmgren, Lotta Johanson, and Laura Naukkarinen.
British actor Paul McGann made his film debut opposite Richard Grant in the cult movie
Withnail and I and he went on to appear in Steven Spielberg’s
Empire of the Sun, Ken Russell’s
The Rainbow, and David Fincher’s
Alien 3. His television work includes the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC’s
Doctor Who, a recurring role in the Idris Elba-led
Luther, and his unmistakable voice has graced many BBC documentaries. McGann first appeared at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2012 to narrate
South: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic.