November 30 - December
10, 2000
An Exhibition of International
Cinema
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Divided
We Fall |
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Czech Republic,
2000, 35mm, 117 minutes
Czech with English Subtitles
Director: Jan
Hrebejk
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Sunday, December
10
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7:00 pm
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$10.00
(film only) |
film
The Lincoln Theatre |
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$15.00
(film + reception) |
reception
Embassy of the Czech Republic |
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Film Screening at The Lincoln Theatre No
credit cards are accepted at the box office of The Lincoln Theatre.
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Closing Night Reception
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Truly a screen gem that must not be missed, Divided We Fall is a Czech dark comedy ably directed by Jan Hrebejk (Cozy Dens). In a small Czech village during World War II, a childless couple, Josef and Marie Cizek (played by award-winning actor Boleslav Polívka and Anna Sisková), hides their former neighbor, a young Jewish man who has managed to escape from the death camps but has lost his entire family. Their other neighbor, now an enthusiastic Nazi collaborator, drops by at odd hours and begins to suspect. The collaborator's German boss, shattered by the death of his young sons in the war, announces that he is moving into the couple's spare room, and to keep him out his wife blurts out she is pregnant and needs it for a nursery. Suddenly, the barren couple needs to somehow become pregnant in a hurry, and you can see where this is going. Divided We Fall is a remarkable mixture of comedic and dramatic elements a la Life Is Beautiful with some of the best production values yet seen in a Czech film. (Film note by Eddie Cockrell)
Winner, Don Quixote
Award 2000, Pilsen Film
Festival
(Director, Jan Hrebejk)
Winner, Golden Kingfisher Award 2000, Pilsen
Film Festival
(Director, Jan Hrebejk)
Winner, Most Popular Film 2000,
Vancouver International Film Festival
(Director, Jan Hrebejk)
Welcoming Remarks
Marcel Sauer, Cultural Attaché, Embassy
of the Czech Republic
Co-sponsored by the Embassy of the Czech Republic
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