Monday | March 6, 2000 9:00 pm

Kautschuk

Screening on Film

Directed by Eduard von Borsody.
With René Deltgen, Gustav Diessl, Roman Bahn.
Germany, 1938, 35mm, black & white, 104 min.
German with English subtitles.

An adventure film produced by the Ufa studio, Kautschuk was released in the United States as Green Hell. It blends elaborate location footage from an Amazon expedition (including tableaux of voracious crocodiles and greedy piranhas as well as a ferocious tropical storm) and interiors shot in the Babelsberg studio to create the historical drama of an English entrepreneur. Henry Wickham, a heroic forerunner of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, travels to Brazil in 1876, posing as a butterfly collector as he seeks to elude Portuguese officials and procure rubber seeds for the British colonies.

March 6 – April 25, 2000

Kautschuk

Part of film series

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

Part of film series

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

Screenings from this program March 2000

Monday06March

Kautschuk

Tuesday07March

The Emperor of California

Tuesday14March

The Broken Jug

Monday20March

Germany Awake!

Tuesday21March

UFA: Myth and Truth

April 2000

Monday03April

The False Step

Tuesday04April

La Habañera

Tuesday11April

Titanic

Sunday16April

The Great Sacrifice

Tuesday18April

Münchhausen

Sunday23April

Under the Bridges

Tuesday25April

Romance in a Minor Key

Screenings from this program
March 2000