Required for all SLI Russian students.
Screening of Russian film required for all Russian Summer Language Institute students
Directed by Jan Hřebejk, 2017. This story takes place in the early 40s during German occupation when three young women and two children await the return of the imprisoned husbands and fathers from Nazi concentration camps. A family friend and doctor watches over the women forced into a family union by the war.
Directed by Julius Ševčík, 2016. Based on the true story of Czech diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, the son of Czechoslovakia’s founding father Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and set just before WWII. Jan desperately tries to save his homeland from Nazi occupation. This film was nominated for over 20 awards, including 12 prestigious Czech Lion Awards.
Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, a young boy opens up a world of trouble when he inadvertently reveals that his father has been listening to resistance broadcasts from London. Director Jan Svěrák received the 2018 Czech Lion Film Fan Award for this film.
MOVIE SCHEDULE:
Thursday April 5th - 7pm FINCHE' C'E' PROSECCO (The Last Prosecco) @ Alumni Hall
Friday April 6th - 7pm EARS - ORECCHIE (Ears) @ Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Saturday April 7th - 7pm L'ORDINE DELLE COSE (The Order of Things) @ Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Wednesday April 18th - 7pm FUNNE, LE RAGAZZE CHE SOGNAVANO IL MARE (Funne, Sea Dreaming Girls) @ Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Thursday April 19th - 7pm EASY @ Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Friday April 20th - 7pm TUTTO QUELLO CHE VUOI (Friends By Chance) @ Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Human Flow is an epic portrait of mass migration that understands how a lack of empathy often stems from a failure of imagination.”
- David Ehrlich, Indiewire
Artist, activist, and director Ai Weiwei captures the worldwide refugee crisis in this breathtakingly epic journey. In this global point of view, Weiwei visits 23 different countries to follow refugees’ quest for things every human needs: safety, shelter, peace, and the opportunity to be who we are.
Once a month, Spectacles invites religious studies, cultural studies, and film studies enthusiasts to join together and watch a movie with religious themes. Afterwards, religious studies majors will lead an open discussion about the movie. And of course, there will be snacks! This month, we will be showing our final movie of the semester.
Pittsburgh Premiere
An elderly tailor living in Buenos Aires realizes the time has come to make good on a promise he made nearly 70 years earlier in Poland. Without the approval of his controlling children and with ailing health, the sharply-dressed suit maker sets out on a journey that is fueled by a sense of duty and a quest for closure, despite the painful memories that arise as he travels toward his homeland. Imbued with delicate humor and colorful characters, this heartfelt tale conveys a moving message of the enduring importance of family, home, and honor.
Pittsburgh Premiere
An elderly tailor living in Buenos Aires realizes the time has come to make good on a promise he made nearly 70 years earlier in Poland. Without the approval of his controlling children and with ailing health, the sharply-dressed suit maker sets out on a journey that is fueled by a sense of duty and a quest for closure, despite the painful memories that arise as he travels toward his homeland. Imbued with delicate humor and colorful characters, this heartfelt tale conveys a moving message of the enduring importance of family, home, and honor.
