Friday Film Fest

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Friday Film Fest

Friday, March 12, 2010
6:30pm

"Hilde"

Starring: Heike Makatsch, Hanns Zischler, Dan Stevens, Roger Cicero

"Hilde" portrays Hildegard Knef's career from her beginnings as a starlet at the UFA film studios in Berlin during World War II to 1965, the start of her career as a singer of chansons. Heike Makatsch received glowing reviews for her performance as Hildegard Knef, and the reviews are very well deserved. Her acting is admirable and her renditions of Knef's songs are remarkable, full of the flavor of Knef's voice and personality.

This film will be shown in German with German subtitles.

The Film Fest Series aims to provide access and insight to all things German while in the midst of some great food.
We hope to provide a good balance of the old and the new, the light and the serious.

The movie is shown on a projection screen in our historic building.

Your admission includes our famous Suppenküche (a light meal), coffee, cake, and also a discussion after the film.

Donations: $12 for members, $15 for non-members, $10 for students

To purchase tickets online, please click the TicketLeap link below:

Friday, April 16
6:30pm

"Dresden" Part I of II (Shown in German with English subtitles)
"Dresden" focuses on an extraordinary historic event in connection with a tragic love story of a woman between two men. In January 1945, the young nurse Anna Mauth, working at a hospital in Dresden, becomes engaged to senior physician Benjamin Wenninger. At the same time, an English Lancaster bomber is shot down. The pilot Robert Newman, the only survivor, manages to reach the city severely injured and hides in the hospital's cellar. Anna discovers him incidentally thinking he is a German deserter, but finally decides to help Robert. --Courtesy of imdb.com
Starring: Heiner Lauterbach, Kai Wiesinger, Felicitas Woll

Friday, May 14
6:30pm

"Dresden" Part II of II (Shown in German with English subtitles)
"Dresden" focuses on an extraordinary historic event in connection with a tragic love story of a woman between two men. In January 1945, the young nurse Anna Mauth, working at a hospital in Dresden, becomes engaged to senior physician Benjamin Wenninger. At the same time, an English Lancaster bomber is shot down. The pilot Robert Newman, the only survivor, manages to reach the city severely injured and hides in the hospital's cellar. Anna discovers him incidentally thinking he is a German deserter, but finally decides to help Robert. --Courtesy of imdb.com
Starring: Heiner Lauterbach, Kai Wiesinger, Felicitas Woll

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