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SUMMARY:Film Screening: &quot\;The Danube Exodus&quot\; (dir. Peter Forgac
 s\, 1998) - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Simon Lewis
DESCRIPTION:The Hungarian filmmaker Péter Forgács is one of the most pro
 minent so-called found footage filmmakers. In particular home movies and a
 mateur films serve as the basis of stories he reveals and compose by using
  recovered personal and historical events.\n\nHe is primarily interested i
 n the way in which these films seem to depict only happy moments\, but on 
 closer consideration they also appear to tell a hidden history\, which can
  be brought back to the surface by the recycling filmmaker.\n\nIn the trav
 elogue The Danube Exodus\, he documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia ju
 st before the beginning of World War II. In two boats\, a group of nine hu
 ndred Slovak\, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Da
 nube\, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on
  the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits\, the captain of one of
  the boats.\n\nHe filmed his passengers while they prayed\, slept and even
  got married. At the end of this journey\, it is clear that the boat will 
 not return empty: a reverse exodus takes place\, this time of repatriating
  Bessarabian Germans\, fleeing to the Third Reich because of the Soviet in
 vasion of Bessarabia . . .
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King's College\, Cambridge
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