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MLLI Department Lecture Hanno Balz, visiting assistant professor of history, Johns Hopkins University “Manufacturing ‘Terrorism’: The Media and the Red Army Faction, 1970-1977” Thursday, October 20, 7 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery In the aftermath of the revolt of the 1960s, the discourse on politics in West Germany appeared intensified and determined by ideological …

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MLLI Film Festival Wednesday, April 8 | 7 p.m. Polisse (2011)   Administration Building Room 101 Based on real cases from the Paris Child Protection Unit, Polisse examines the brutal tasks of ten CPU officers, bringing together an ensemble cast composed of some of the finest actors working in France today, including Marina Foïs, Karin Viard, and Jérémie Elkaïm. …

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MLLI Film Festival Friday, April 10 | 2:30 p.m. Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2013) Physics Building Room 101 Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits is a documentary/drama/fantasy film about a woman who was shunned for being possessed by spirits as a girl. Based on the life story of Korea’s most famous living shaman, Kim Keum-hwa, this film shows how …

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MLLI Film Festival Tuesday, April 14 | 7 p.m. Oh Boy/A Coffee in Berlin (2012) Public Policy Building Room 105  Niko hasn’t found his calling nor his niche in life yet after dropping out of his law studies at the university and getting cut off from further funding by his father. Drifting through life and the Berlin urban …

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MLLI Film Festival Thursday, April 16 | 7:15 p.m. The German Doctor (2013) Physics Building Room 101 A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinian family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children …

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MLLI Friday, April 24 | 6:30-8 p.m. ITE Building Room 104 Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day—commemorates May 8, 1945, the date when the World War II Allies (including the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union) formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. The UMBC Russian Club with support of the …

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MLLI Film Festival Monday, March 9 | 7:00 p.m. Sherman Hall, Room 003 A middle-school teacher (played by Takako Matsu), whose four-year-old daughter is found dead, is convinced that two of her students were response for her daughter’s murder. No one believes her, and she may very well be wrong, but she decides, nevertheless, that it’s …

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MLLI Film Festival Monday, March 23 | 4:30 p.m. The Lovely Month of May (1963) Sherman Hall Room 011 This landmark documentary, co-directed by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme, was filmed in May of 1962, just after the passage of the Évian Accords, which officially ended the Algerian War. During this “first springtime of peace”—the first time in …

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MLLI Film Festival Thursday, March 26 | 7 p.m. The French Minister (2013)  Physics Building Room 101 Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, this razor-sharp satire of politics—both those enacted on the world stage and within the corridors of workplaces—originated in first-hand experience: The film is adapted from graphic novels written by Antonin Baudry, who worked as a speechwriter for Dominique …

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MLLI Film Festival Tuesday, March 31 | 7 p.m. The Past (2013)  LH 1 Full of the same astute and compassionate observations about unraveling, unhappy relationships, conjugal and otherwise, that distinguished his previous work, A Separation (2011), Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s latest film is set in a working-class suburb of Paris. It is there that Marie (Bérénice Bejo) lives …

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