With the 70th Anniversary of the end of World War II in 2015, Monmouth University presents a free film series titled “A World at War, 1937-1945: Triumph, Tragedy, Memory and Myth.” The series focuses on the life-and-death decisions that people made in the invaded countries to survive in the war, defend their homeland and beliefs, and protect their families.<\/p>\n
Collectively, the films show episodes of resistance, collaboration, and heroism as well as the legacy of the global war for the later 20th century and our current century.<\/p>\n
All films will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University. Admittance is free and open to public. The series is hosted by Dr. Thomas S. Pearson, professor in the Department of History & Anthropology, and is organized by the Office for Global Initiatives.<\/p>\n
The movies and dates are:<\/p>\n
In The Fog<\/strong> (2012), the setting for this film is the Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choices.<\/p>\n Zelary<\/strong> (2003), in this film, a nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940’s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.<\/p>\n A Woman in Berlin<\/strong> (2008), watch as a woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.<\/p>\n Ida<\/strong> (2013), this film shows how Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960’s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.<\/p>\n Plot summaries are based on the IMDb web site.<\/p>\n For further information, please contact 732-571-4474.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cA World at War, 1937-1945: Triumph, Tragedy, Memory and Myth\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,230],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[14,17,11,8],"school":[26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802200754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-for-the-arts","category-global-initiatives","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802200754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802200754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802200754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802222393,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802200754\/revisions\/40802222393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802200754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802200754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802200754"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802200754"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802200754"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802200754"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802200754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Monday, February 23, 2015<\/h3>\n
Wednesday, March 25, 2015<\/h3>\n
Wednesday, April 15, 2015<\/h3>\n