Saturday, September 25, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium
525 South State Street, Ann Arbor 48109

Free Admission

Please join American Romanian Festival Executive Director Marian Tanau, Ramona Uritescu-Lombard, film scholar and Lecturer in the German and Comparative Literature departments at the University of Michigan, and Director Dan Popa for a discussion and Q&A after the film.

Film Screening

Gently Anastasia Was Passing
Duios Anastasia Trecea; 1979, Alexandru Tatos, 100 min, English subtitles

This drama is set on a border town on the Danube in 1944 in a town occupied by the Germans. There are plenty of collaborators eager to please the Germans. A number of the young men join the partisans which by orders of the Germans are to be killed on sight. When a Serbian partisan is killed and the orders are to have his body thrown into the village, forbidding anyone to bury it – Anastasia refuses to obey the order. ❖