Seventy five years after U.S. moviegoers first heard Charles Foster Kane whisper “Rosebud,” Citizen Kane will have its United Arab Emirates premiere.
A new 4K restoration will be shown on March 6 at the Madinat Al Saadiyat auditorium in Abu Dahbi, according to The National.
Citizen Kane is being screened as part of The Greatest Movies Ever Made series which, also includes Hitchock’s Vertigo and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
UAE organizers wrote of Citizen Kane, “Already famous for his work on Broadway and in radio, Orson Welles was barely 25 when he made this, his first masterpiece and one of the most influential films ever made. Everything about this saga of a newspaper titan’s rise to power evokes superlatives.”
The screening is part of the Seventh Art, an ongoing program presented by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority.
The Arabian Peninsula nation is a federation of seven emirates with a population of 1.4 million Emirati citizens and nearly 8 million expatriates.
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