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October 18, 2002
German
Filmmaker Frank Beyer to Speak at MHC October 23
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Photo: © LPI, Los Angeles, CA
German
filmmaker Frank Beyer (right) at the 1997 Academy Award
nomination ceremony for his film Jacob the Liar.
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Frank
Beyer, one of Germany's most distinguished and successful filmmakers,
will visit MHC Wednesday, October 23, as part of a tour of North
American colleges and universities. He will read from his memoirs,
in German (periodically during the talk, Beyer's remarks will
be summarized in English), at 7:30 pm in Mary Woolley Hall's New
York Room. A discussion and question-and-answer period after the
talk will be conducted in English and German.
Beyer was nominated
for an Academy Award for best foreign film in 1977 for Jacob
the Liar. Based on the famous novel by Jurek Becker, the film
tells the tale of a man who invents news stories about impending
Nazi defeat to bolster the spirits of the other Jews living in
his Polish ghetto. (A Hollywood adaptation of the film starring
Robin Williams was released in 1999.) During his stay in the area,
Beyer's film Naked among Wolves, a true story about how
prisoners at Buchenwald risked their lives to hide a small Jewish
boy from their captors, will be screened October 20, at 11 am
at Northampton's Pleasant Street Theater; and Jacob the Liar
will be shown October 24, at Stirn Auditorium at Amherst College
at 4 pm and 7:30 pm. Beyer will appear at both area screenings
to introduce and discuss his films.
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