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

 

Week 1 (Jan. 4-9)

 

Film: Romeo, Juliet, and the Darkness (Czechoslovakia, Jiri Weiss, 1960)

 

Week 2 (Jan. 10-16)

 

Film: Border Street (Poland, Alexander Ford, 1949)

 

Week 3 (Jan. 17-23)

 

Film: Cold Days (Hungary, Andras Kovacs, 1966)

 

Week 4 (Jan. 24-30)

 

Film: The Last Butterfly (Czech Republic, Great Britain, France, Karel Kachyna, 1994)

 

Week 5 (Jan. 31- Feb. 6)

 

Film: The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia, Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, 1965)

 

 

 

Unit II. The Lives of Women Under State Socialism

 

Week 6 (Feb. 7-13)

 

Film: Loves of a Blonde (Czechoslovakia, Milos Forman, 1965)

 

Week 7 (Feb. 14-20)

 

Film: Man is not a Bird (Yugoslavia, Dusan Makavejev, 1965)

 

Week 8 (Feb. 21-Mar. 6) Film: When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia, Emir Kusturica, 1985)

 

 

 

Unit III. Women Directors Respond to Patriarchy

 

Week 9 (Mar. 7-13)

 

Film: Nine Months (Hungary, Marta Meszaros, 1976)

 

Week 10 (Mar. 14-20)

 

Film: Daisies (Czechoslovakia, Vera Chytilova, 1966)

 

Week 11 (Mar. 21-27)

 

Film: A Woman Alone (Poland, Agnieszka Holland, 1981)

 

 

 

Unit IV. Ethnic Discrimination and the Ethnic Warfare of the 1990s

 

Week 12 (Mar. 28-April 3)

 

Film: Time of the Gypsies (Yugoslavia, Emir Kusturica, 1989)

 

Week 13 (April 4-10)

 

Film: Vukovar (Yugoslavia/Cyprus/USA, Boro Draskovic, 1994) - excerpts in class
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Yugoslavia, Srdjan Dragojevic, 1996)

 

Week 14 (April 11-17)

 

Films: The Fourth Part of the Brain (Bosnia, Nenad Dizdarevic, 1996) - in class
Before the Rain (Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski, 1994)

 

 

 

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