Wednesday | December 6, 2006 7:00 pm

Dragon Chow
(Drachenfutter)

Screening on Film

Directed by Jan Schütte.
With Bhasker, Frank Oladeinde, Youngme Song.
West Germany, 1987, 35mm, black & white, 75 min.
German with English subtitles.

A young Pakistani man seeking to gain residence in Hamburg takes an illegal job in a Chinese restaurant. He befriends a young waiter who decides to join him in pursuing their dream of opening a restaurant of their own. Director Schütte provides a humanist perspective on cultural displacement in modern Germany and the struggles of the new immigrant class.

September 27 – December 13, 2006

The New German Cinema and Beyond

October 25–December 20, 1999

German Retro-Visions

December 3–17, 2003

The New German Cinema (Revisited)

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco