November 30 - December 10, 2000
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USA, 2000, 35mm, 91 minutes
English and Czech with English subtitles
Director: Amir Bar-Lev

Director Amir Bar-Lev's popular documentary Fighter is a powerful combination of friendship, adventure, and the inner strength of two friends whose different paths, 50-years earlier, lead to collisions along the way today. Jan Weiner and Arnost Lustig join forces and retrace the steps of a 25-year-old Weiner's courageous journey through war-torn Europe, with bits of chiding remarks, Czech boyhood humor, and plenty of emotional jabs at one another, leading them to the conclusion that theirs is an "unlikely friendship brought to the brink of collapse."

Winner, Audience Award 2000, Hamptons International Film Festival
     Most Popular Documentary
Winner, Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
     Special Mention

Welcoming Remarks
Marcel Sauer, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the Czech Republic

Special Guest
Arnost Lustig, Author and Professor, Department of Literature, American University

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of the Czech Republic

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