The Gulbenkian, the University’s on-site cinema, has put together, in association with the Department of German and the student German Society, a series of German-language and German-themed films through November and December.
The films will be shown on Wednesday afternoons, with a special discount (£3 for concessions and £4.50 for full-price).
All of the films date post-1989. The fall of the Iron Curtain led to fundamental cultural and political re-alignments in the German-speaking world, unleashing a wave of cultural comment and creative activity. The 1990s and early twenty-first century saw a re-vitalisation of the film scene in both Germany and Austria, evident not only in highly acclaimed niche productions but also in a series of international box-office hits. Alongside preoccupation with the traumatic past German film turned to topics of migration and multiculturalism and discovered a new sense of ironic humour.
The films are:
13 November, 3pm
The Counterfeiters
20 November, 1.15pm
Schindler’s List
27 November, 1.30pm
The Edge of Heaven
3 December, 8.30pm
The White Ribbon
18 December, 1.30pm
Good Bye, Lenin!
For more details of events at the Gulbenkian cinema, please see the page:
www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian/