Monday | March 20, 2000 9:00 pm

Germany Awake!
(Deutschland, erwache!)

Screening on Film

Directed by Erwin Leiser.
Germany, 1968, 16mm, black & white, 90 min.
English and German with English subtitles.

This absorbing documentary on the German motion picture industry and its use as a tool for propaganda was produced by the great German film historian Erwin Leiser. Among the many feature film excerpts included are Dawn (1933), Jud Süss (1940), The Rothschilds (1940), and The Great King (1942). This critical compilation was instrumental in exposing, for the first time, the productions and methods of the Third Reich to a worldwide audience.

March 6 – April 25, 2000

Films in the Third Reich: The Power of Images and Illusions Screenings

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