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Year of the Eastern Europe &
Russia Film
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These events are free to Reinhardt
students, faculty and staff. Due to licensing agreements and
royalty issues, we can not open them to the the public. They
will be shown in Hoke O'Kelley Auditorium, Burgess
Administration Building, starting 6:30 p.m. |
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March 12 (Wed.)
"Burnt by the Sun"
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Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an
idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old
daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things
change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri
from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his
games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the
time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle
of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't
paying a social call... from
http://imdb.com/title/tt0111579/plotsummary (hosted by Theresa Ast)
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March 26 (Wed.)
"Onegin"
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In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene
Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking
in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and,
finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is
introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl,
she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer
and professes her love for him.
from http://imdb.com/title/tt0119079/plotsummary
(hosted by Theresa Ast) |
April 3 (Thurs.)
"The Lives of Others"
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The horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of
observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the
successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion
Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual
stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don't
always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of
Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service
agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple,
but their life fascinates him more and more...
from http://imdb.com/title/tt0405094/plotsummary
(hosted by Jonathan Good) |
April 10 (Thurs.)
"Goodbye Lenin"
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East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the
regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers
a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR
does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to
avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again
for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot... from
http://imdb.com/title/tt0301357/plotsummary
(hosted by Anne Good) |
April 17 (Thurs.)
"Before the Rain"
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The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on
itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an
ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A
young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection.
In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it
out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
She wants permanence with her lover, a prize-winning Macedonian
photographer just back from Bosnia, changed by the violence. He
leaves abruptly for his village; he's not visited it in 16
years. There he tries to ignore bitter divisions between his
Orthodox brethren and local Albanians, then tries to transcend
them. from
http://imdb.com/title/tt0110882/plotsummary
(hosted by Pam Wilson) |
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