Spring Quarter Central European Film 1968-present: Fighter

Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, U.S.A., 2000. Amir Bar-Lev follows two Czech Holocaust survivors, Jan Weiner and Arnost Lustig, as they retrace the path Weiner took to escape Nazi persecution (from Prague to the former Yugoslavia and eventually the Italian countryside). The two men had radically different experiences of the mid-20th century: Lustig survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald to become a successful novelist; Weiner escaped to fight with the Allied Forces, was interned in postwar Czechoslovakia, and then emigrated to the U.S. This fascinating documentary shows the incompatibility of two world views forged by these respective experiences, and allows us to witness a breakdown in communication that most films would edit out or gloss over.

 
Date and Time:
 Wednesday, May 24, 2006.  6:30 PM.
Approximate duration of 2 hour(s).
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Building 60, Room 61-H  [Map]
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Film
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CREEES Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
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Last Modified:
April 6, 2006