I Siciliani (2016, Italy, 120 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Francesco Lama With Antonio Emanuele, Tony Sperandeo, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Leo Gullotta In a little village in the center of Sicily there is a boy, Ignazio Bonaventura (Antonio Emanuele) working sporadic and, of course, illegal jobs, receiving unemployment benefits. Tired of his condition, he decides to write a book about Sicilians, thus setting out on…
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This screening is part of the Center for Applied Liberal Arts‘ Spring 2018 Film Series From the Other Side: Foreign War Films. Click here for the complete calendar of screenings. La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow) (Italy, 2005, 116 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Written, directed and starring Roberto Benigni With Nicoletta Braschi, Jean Reno, Tom Waits Traditionally, war films tell only one…
The German movie shows a different side to European nationalism: the quiet one.
As part of the CALA Spring 2018 Film Series “From the Other Side: Foreign War Films,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the 2014 German film Phoenix, directed by Christian Petzold, starring Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld. The screenplay is a loose adaptation of the 1961 novel Le Retour des Cendres (The Return from the Ashes) by Hubert…