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With the ability to watch movies in original version, the Vice President of University Extension of the Technical University of Cartagena has organized the course Film and History, free entry, to bring UPCT students and the general public to some events that marked the history of the twentieth century.
The projections of the six films selected will take place between March 4 and May 14 in the University Residence Alberto Colao and begin at five in the afternoon in the auditorium.
Before viewing the films will be an explanation of the historical context in which the action is, to give the viewer a certain critical perspective to what is going to see, and once the movie starts a symposium focused on the content social, cultural and political issues addressed.
The films will be issued in the original version in Spanish on Thursdays and Fridays.
The pre-historical explanation, about ten minutes, will be held both days, with post-movie conversation only on Fridays.
Non-violence against colonial rule, racism, the birth of the state of Israel, the liberation of Paris, the end of apartheid, made contemporary history told with great mastery of directors.
The key figures of the twentieth century and the movers and shakers, reincarnated in the faces of famous actors.
The series, directed by Domingo Alcaraz Candela, begins March 4 with a screening of "Gandhi", filmed in 1982, won eight Oscars and based on the figure of the leader of non-violence against the British Empire.
On March 5 this same film will be offered in Spanish.
11 and March 12 will screen "Paris Burning?", A Franco-British co-production, featuring an extraordinary cast of actors and is part of the events that culminated in the liberation of Paris by Allied forces at the end of World War II.
15 and April 16 will screen "O Jerusalem," based on the novel by Lapierre and Collins, who narrates the creation of Israel in 1948.
"Captains of April", whose projection is scheduled for April 22, focuses on the events in Portugal in '74, which led to the "Carnation Revolution" and meant the end of the dictatorship of Salazar .
Alan Parker film "Mississippi Burning" is based on real events that took place in the American heartland in 1964, and references to racism, the Ku Klux Klan and the struggle for human rights.
His projection is scheduled for 29 and 30 April.
The cycle closes on 13 and 14 May with the movie "Goodbye Bafana", which brings viewers the figure of James Gregory, white South African prison guard in which Nelson Mandela was still serving.
Source: UPCT
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