Join Library Director Leonard Zapala Tuesday afternoons at 1 pm, starting February 2 till May 25. This year’s Spring Film Series will focus onfilms that reflect american Attitudes, as seen by Hollywood, towards the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War.
Title: Mission to Moscow
Location: Library
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Description: Mission to Moscow was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the political machinations in Moscow just before the start of the war and presents Stalin\’s Russia in a very favorable light. So much so, that the movie was cited years later by the House Un-American Activities Commission and was largely responsible for the screenwriter, Howard Koch being Blacklisted.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-02-02
Title: Iron Curtain
Location: Library
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Description: Behind the Iron Curtain (a.k.a. The Iron Curtain) is based on the true-life defection of Soviet Embassy code specialist Igor Gouzenko. Filmed in a semi-documentary style, Behind the Iron Curtain is more matter-of-fact and less paranoic than other “Red scare” films of the period.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-02-09
Title: Guilty of Treason
Location: Library
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Description: The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindzhenty was arrested, tortured and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Russian occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-02-16
Title: The Big Lift
Location: Library
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Description: In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sectors of Berlin to bring the entire city under their control. A semi-documentary about the resulting Berlin Airlift gives way to stories of two fictitious U.S. Air Force participants: Sgt. Hank Kowalski, whose hatred of Germans proves resistant to change, and Sgt. Danny McCullough, whose pursuit of an attractive German war widow gives him a crash course in the seamy side of occupied Berlin.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-02-23