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Eight Films
Featured in 41st Annual Festival
Missouri Southern News Bureau
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 20, 2002
Contact:
Harrison Kash
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JOPLIN, MO (SNS) -The 41st Annual International Film Festival's
2002-2003 season will feature eight motion pictures from eight
countries. Included will be the works of such celebrated film-makers as
King Vidor, Fritz Lang, Marcel Pagnol, Marta Meszaros and Jan Nemec,
Film scheduled include:
- Sept. 17 - Our Daily Bread, King Vidor's
award-winning classic from the depression years;
- Oct. 1 - Death of a Bureaucrat, Tomas Alea's
blackly hilarious satire on bureaucracy from Cuba;
- Oct. 15 - Tight Little Island, a delightful
comedy starring James Robertson Justice and Joan Greenwood;
- Oct. 29 - Riddance, Marta Meszaros' revealing
drama of intimate relationships from Hungary;
- Feb. 25 - Destiny, Fritz Lang's enormously
influential folk tale set in three exotic locales;
- March 11 - Angele, Marcel Pagnol's story of
seduction and betrayal, starring Fernandel at his best;
- March 25 - Martyrs of Love, Jan Nemec's
award-winning surrealistic comedy from Czechoslovakia;
- April 8 - An Unfinished Story, Freidrich Emler's
award-winning deeply-felt love story from Russia.
Presented by the Missouri Southern State College Film Society, the
series is funded in part by Missouri Southern's Institute of
International Studies. The films will be shown Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in
Matthews Hall Auditorium.
Season tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for senior citizens or
students. Tickets may be purchased by sending a check to the Missouri
Southern Film Society, 3950 E. Newman Road, Joplin, MO 64801. For more
information, call (417) 625-9614 or visit www.mssc.edu.
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