Tuesday | April 4, 2000 9:00 pm

La Habañera

Screening on Film

Directed by Detlef Sierck (Douglas Sirk).
With Zarah Leander, Karl Martell, Ferdinand Marian.
Germany, 1937, 35mm, color, 100 min.
German with English subtitles.

La Habañera portrays a Scandinavian woman’s foreign affair, a romance with an exotic landscape, a seductive song, and a Latin lover. Astrée goes astray and surrenders to a reckless moment. The paradise quickly loses its luster as she becomes a veritable hostage, bound to a tyrant who torments her. Her only solace is her young son, with whom she imagines life back in the snow of Sweden. La Habañera is a consummate example of Nazi cinema’s own foreign affair: its conscious attempt to appropriate the Hollywood melodrama for domestic audiences.

March 6 – April 25, 2000

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

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Film and the Third Reich

November 4–December 15, 2002

Film in the Third Reich: The Power of Images and Illusions

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Psychedelic Cinema

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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

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Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

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The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

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The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

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November 23

Wings of a Serf

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November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil