Last Year Titanic (Letztes Jahr Titanic) (1991): Politics and Popcorn Series

Activity Type: 
Film
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Presenter: 
Andreas Voigt, Film Director
Date: 
Saturday, November 8, 2014 - 17:30 to 19:30
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
324 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Email: 
euce@pitt.edu
Cost: 
Free.

*Director Andreas Voigt will attend the screenings of his films November 7-8. A discussion with the director will directly follow the screening. Popcorn and drinks provided.

Voigt’s next film follows a journalist, a worker, a left-wing skinhead, a teenager, and a pub owner between December 1989 and 1990, the last year of the GDR and the first one in a reunified Germany. The film centers not on political opinions, but on actual situations, developments, and personal feelings. Of course, at the beginning fo the shoot, reunification could not have been predicted, so the film is an important document about the time of change, the social and economic insecurity, but it also has some ironic and even absurd moments and uses the metaphor of the last dance (from the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, 2013).

http://www.andreas-voigtfilm.de/?testvariable=englisch&testvariable2=lei...

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
European Studies Center
European Union Center of Excellence
Non-University Sponsors: 
World History Center
Film Studies Program
Department of German
Dean of Undergraduate Studies
World Regions: 
Europe
European Union
Western Europe