[artinfo] Roma on the screen - CEU Film screening on Mondays

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THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
NATIONALISM STUDIES PROGRAM
AND
THE OPEN SOCIETY ARCHIVES
cordially invite you to the 

Roma on the Screen

Film screening on Mondays

This selection of highly acclaimed and rare documentaries attempts to present various perspectives on Roma communities around the world and the influences and events shaping them.

First screening on Monday 20th of October at 6 PM in TIGY room (Nádor 11. Courtyard):

The False Word
(Das Falsche Wort)
One reason that most contemporary gypsies now trace their decent to just a few families is that the Nazis, in their quest for a chimerical "racial purity," rounded up and exterminated all the gypsies they could lay their hands on. This documentary explores that round-up and the propaganda associated with it, and includes footage of Nazi "scientists" carefully measuring the features of gypsy children immediately before they are sent to the gas chambers. With all the publicity accorded the far less thoroughgoing (though no less horrifying) extermination of Europe's Jews, the plight of the gypsies is far less well understood. This moving documentary attempts to correct that oversight and includes interviews with some of the (very few) survivors of those days. Director: Katrin Seybold and Melanie Spitta, Germany, 1987, 83 min.