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10/24/2025

Audiences are loving KÖLN 75 across the country! Don’t miss this delightful, one-of-a-kind film! And if you’ve seen it please tell your friends!

10/23/2025

Held over in New York City and opening tomorrow in Los Angeles , KÖLN 75 is charming audiences on both coasts! Don’t miss it!

10/22/2025

KÖLN 75 opens this Friday in Los Angeles Royal, Glendale and Town Center 5. See writer-director in person at select screenings!

10/18/2025

Michael Chernus, the real Vera Brandes, Mala Emde (who plays her) and director Ido Fluk in front of a full capacity crowd at the opening of KÖLN 75 last night . There are still some tickets available for tonight’s Q&A. Don’t miss this delightful film. See it this weekend and tell all your friends!

10/16/2025

STARTS TOMORROW WITH ACTORS, DIRECTOR AND SUBJECT IN PERSON! Link for tickets in our story.

This beautiful, uplifting film captures the compelling, inspiring and, until now, unknown backstory about Keith Jarrett’s one-hour, entirely improvised 1975 concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazz history, and the teenaged concert promoter, Vera Brandes, who made it happen. Starring John Magaro as Jarrett, Michael Chernus as the jazz critic who acts as our guide, and Mala Emde as the irrepressible Vera.

“Infectious…you don’t need to be a Keith Jarrett fan to enjoy Köln 75, but for anyone who is, the movie is a savory anecdote that colors in his fluky rapture.”
–Owen Gleiberman, Variety

“A vivid vehicle for a dynamic, often very funny Emde...the female-focused story of a high-stakes struggle, showing how a cultural passion can sometimes overcome all obstacles and transform a person’s life entirely.”
–Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily

10/15/2025

In KÖLN 75 the wonderful award-winning actress Mala Emdes plays the equally wonderful Vera Brandes, who at the age of 18 put on the concert that would become the best selling solo jazz album of all time. Mala and Vera will be in person on Friday and Saturday at the 6:45pm shows! Buy your tickets now and don’t miss your chance to see these incredible ladies IRL!

10/14/2025

Michael Chernus (Severance and the new Peacock series Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy) stars as jazz critic Michael Watts in KÖLN 75. The story behind the creation of Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert, KÖLN 75 opens in New York this Friday at and in L.A. on Friday 24 .

10/13/2025

See John Magaro as Keith Jarrett and Mala Emde as Vera Brandes in the enthralling, heart-warming KÖLN 75 which starts Friday . Tickets on sale now.

10/12/2025

On the occasion of the US premiere of KÖLN 75 at yesterday: director Ido Fluk, producer Sol Bondy and the real Vera Brandes! You can catch one more screening of the film today at 11:30am in Southampton.

10/10/2025

Make your plans! Book your tickets now! (And if you’re in the Hamptons this weekend catch it at !)

10/09/2025

In advance of the film’s opening on October 17, come and meet Vera Brandes—who at an amazingly young age produced Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert—and director Ido Fluk who has brought her incredible story to the screen in KÖLN 75. Köln 75 captures the compelling, entertaining and, until now, unknown backstory about Jarrett’s one-hour, entirely improvised 1975 concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazz history, and about the teenaged concert promoter who made it happen.

On Wednesday, October 15, at 7pm, Goethe-Institut New York will host a discussion between Vera and Ido moderated by Grammy nominated producer, author and NYU professor Ashley Kahn.

RSVP Required. Please see the link in our story. The Goethe-Institut is located at 30 Irving Place in New York.

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