**The DECEMBER 6th film has been CANCELLED**

CLT 218 Holocaust Literature Film Series
Tuesdays September 13-December 6
Location: McConnell Auditorium
Time: 7:30pm
This film series is not open to the public.

Representations of the Holocaust

Tues. Sept. 13 - The Shop on Main Street (Czecholovakia, 1965), Tragicomedy about the struggle of a peasant in a small Slovak town to understand the roundup of his Jewish neighbors, Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Tues. Sept. 20 - Korczak (Poland, 1990), controversial film from the acclaimed Polish director Andrzej Wajda about Dr. Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish doctor who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Tues. Oct. 18 - Europa, Europa (Germany/France 1990), based on the true story of a Jewish teen who attempts to survive the war by posing as an Aryan.

Tues. Oct. 25 - Schindler’s List (USA, 1993), Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning story about a German war profiteer and his  attempts to save his Jewish factory workers condemned to death.

Tues. Nov. 1 - Life is Beautiful (Italy, 1997), Best actor and foreign film Oscars for Roberto Benigni’s film about a father who attempts to protect his son from the truth of the Holocaust by weaving an elaborate, sometimes outlandish tale.

Survivors/Witnesses/Truth-seekers

Tues. Nov. 8 - The Pawnbroker (USA, 1965), Rod Steiger won an Oscar for his harrowing portrayal of a lonely survivor who ends up as a pawnbroker in New York’s Spanish Harlem.

Tues. Nov. 15 - Sophie’s Choice (USA 1982), love triangle, set in post-war Brooklyn with flashbacks to Europe about Sophie, a guilt-ridden Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, her paranoid Jewish lover Nathan, and a young Southern writer. Meryl Streep won a best-actress Oscar for her performance.

Tues. Nov. 22 (in class) - Night and Fog (France, 1955), one of the earliest attempts to document the Holocaust on film, based on newsreel images and a visit to the abandoned site of Auschwitz; Shoah (excerpt, France 1981), Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour documentary epic made up of interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators. Due to the length of the film you must view at least three of the cassettes (on reserve) on your own

Tues. Nov. 29 - Nasty Girl (Germany 1989), about a German student’s efforts to uncover the truth about her hometown’s involvement in the Holocaust.

Tues. Dec. 6 - Under the Domim Tree (Israel 1994), set in a youth village for Holocaust orphans in Israel where life is torn between haunting memories of the past and the imperative of rebuilding life in the new Jewish state.