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"Das schreckliche mädchen
(The Nasty Girl)"feature film, 95 mins
produced by Sentana produktion
screenplay / direction: Michael Verhoeven |
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Feb. 28, Mar. 1, Mar. 2
12:00 noon-2:00 pm
History Common Room 2090, Sidney Smith Hall
University of Toronto
(N.B. Film will also be on reserve at the Gerstein Audio Visual Library, 7&9 King's College Circle Basement, from February 15th-28th.) |
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| The film tells the story of a young woman by the name of Anna Rosmus who uncovered the secret Nazi past of her small home town of Passau. Her story begins as she wins a regional award for a history essay she has written in school and is entered into a national competition. She decides to write an essay on how the people in her town resisted the Nazis. The problem is that they did not.To Discussion Page |
"Nasty Girl"
25 mins, 1993
produced by Susan Dando
from CBC Prime Time News |
On reserve at the Gerstein Audio Visual Library
7&9 King's College Circle (Basement)
University of Toronto
from February 15th-28th
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| Profile of Anna Rosmus, who uncovered the dark secrets of her home town of Passau in Germany - that it was hiding a Nazi past. Also includes clips from the film, Nasty Girl, based on her life and interviews with filmmaker Michael Verhoeven. Townspeople hostile to her activities are also interviewed. Interviewer: Gillian Findlay. To Discussion Page |
"Long Night's Journey Into Day"
feature film, 1999, 95 mins
director / producer / director of photography: Frances Reid
director / editor: Deborah Hoffman
Iris Films |
Days and Times TBA
History Common Room 2090, Sidney Smith Hall
University of Toronto |
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Reveals a South Africa trying to forge a lasting peace after 40 years of government by the most notorious system of racial segregation since Nazi Germany. The documentary studies South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up by the post-apartheid, democratic government to consider amnesty for perpetrators of crimes committed under apartheid's reign.
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.To Discussion Page |
