Sunday | February 12, 2006 8:30 pm

Mother
(Die Mutter)

Screening on Film

Directed by Manfred Wekwerth.
With Helene Weigel, Fred Düren, Erich Franz.
East Germany, 1958, 35mm, color, 147 min.
German with English subtitle.

Bertoldt Brecht's grand epic of political theater, written in 1931, is an adaptation of Maxim Gorky's novel and tells the rousing story of an oppressed Russian woman who is transformed into a militant revolutionary. Filmed by DEFA, this production retains much of Brecht's original cast, and includes a landmark performance Weigel.

February 10 – 21, 2006

Rebels With A Cause: The Cinema of East Germany

January 17–February 28

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 13–23

Alain Kassanda, 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

February 20

Growing Up Female, Second-Wave

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins