Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan
Film Screenings for Slavic 312/RC Hums 312. Central European Cinema:
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Issues.
Instructor: Herb Eagle.
Semester: Winter 2001
Films are shown Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., 140 Lorch
| Unit 1. The Holocaust
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| Week 1 (Jan. 4-9)
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Film: Romeo, Juliet, and the Darkness (Czechoslovakia,
Jiri Weiss, 1960)
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| Week 2 (Jan. 10-16)
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Film: Border Street (Poland, Alexander Ford, 1949)
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| Week 3 (Jan. 17-23)
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Film: Cold Days (Hungary, Andras Kovacs, 1966)
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| Week 4 (Jan. 24-30)
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Film: The Last Butterfly (Czech Republic, Great Britain,
France, Karel Kachyna, 1994)
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| Week 5 (Jan. 31- Feb. 6)
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Film: The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia, Jan Kadar
and Elmar Klos, 1965)
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| Unit II. The Lives of Women Under State Socialism
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| Week 6 (Feb. 7-13)
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Film: Loves of a Blonde (Czechoslovakia, Milos Forman,
1965)
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| Week 7 (Feb. 14-20)
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Film: Man is not a Bird (Yugoslavia, Dusan Makavejev,
1965)
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| Week 8 (Feb. 21-Mar. 6) | Film: When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia, Emir
Kusturica, 1985)
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| Unit III. Women Directors Respond to Patriarchy
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| Week 9 (Mar. 7-13)
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Film: Nine Months (Hungary, Marta Meszaros, 1976)
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| Week 10 (Mar. 14-20)
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Film: Daisies (Czechoslovakia, Vera Chytilova, 1966)
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| Week 11 (Mar. 21-27)
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Film: A Woman Alone (Poland, Agnieszka Holland, 1981)
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| Unit IV. Ethnic Discrimination and the Ethnic Warfare
of the 1990s
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| Week 12 (Mar. 28-April 3)
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Film: Time of the Gypsies (Yugoslavia, Emir Kusturica,
1989)
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| Week 13 (April 4-10)
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Film: Vukovar (Yugoslavia/Cyprus/USA, Boro Draskovic,
1994) - excerpts in class Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Yugoslavia, Srdjan Dragojevic, 1996)
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| Week 14 (April 11-17)
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Films: The Fourth Part of the Brain (Bosnia, Nenad
Dizdarevic, 1996) - in class Before the Rain (Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski, 1994)
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Updated 01/17/01