OSA

PROPAGANDA FILM IN THE 20th CENTURY

Starting from April 2007 Galeria Centralis presents a series of the most interesting but rarely screened films of the propaganda genre at its Monday spring film show. Colonial films, Nazi, Soviet, Hungarian and American military, educational, documentary and fiction films, and newsreels are on the program in April and May.

16 April, 2007 - Mon 18.00
"The Savage"
"Exotic cultures" of Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes through the eyes of the Dutch colonialists, 1910-1921.
5 short films, 60 min
(silent w/Dutch subtitles, w/Hungarian voice-over)
introduced by: Mikl�s V�r�s, cultural anthropologist (in Hungarian)

23 April, 2007 - Mon 18.00
The USSR through the Eyes of an Avant-garde Filmmaker
Nations of Europe and Asia, nationalized industry, agriculture and trade in Vertov's lyrical photo-poem.
"One-Sixth of the World" (director: Dziga Vertov, 1926, Soviet, 56 min, silent w/Russian subtitles, w/English voice-over)
introduction by Oksana Sarkisova, audiovisual archivist, OSA Archivum (in English)

2 May, 2007 - Wed 18.00
3. The Gulag as Sanitarium
Solovki Labour Camps in 1928 and during the political transformation.
Fragments from the film "Solovki Labour Camps in 1927-1928" (director: A. Tserkasov, 1928, Soviet, w/Russian subtitles). The complete version of the documentary "Solovetsky Power" (director: Marina Goldovskaya, Soviet, 1988, 88 min)

7 May, 2007 - Mon 18.00
The Leader's Birthday
The F�hrer, the Generalissimo and R�kosi.
"Hitler's Birthday Parade" (1939, German, 21 min, w/English subtitles), "Out of Innocent Heart" (1949, Soviet, 19 min, Russian) and a Hungarian newsreel.

14 May, 2007 - Mon 18.00
From Allies to Enemies
The Soviet Union in American military educational films during WW II and the Cold War.
"Why We Fight? Battle of Russia" (director: Frank Capra, 1943, USA, 83 min, English)
"Red Nightmare" (1962, USA, 25 min, English)
introduction by Istv�n R�v, Professor of History, Central European University (in Hungarian)

21 May, 2007 - Mon 18.00
The Specter of Communism
"The Salt of the Earth" is the only American film that was blacklisted. The director, Herbert Biberman, was blacklisted and accused of "un-American activities." The film was released in 2000. ("The Salt of the Earth," USA, 1954, 94 min, English)

Admission free