(From Southern News Service)
The 52nd annual International Film Festival will continue with the 1954 Polish film “Five from Barska Street” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, in Cornell Auditorium at Missouri Southern State University.
Set in the post-World War II years, the film tells the story of five juvenile delinquents who are put on probation after a robbery. Directed by Aleksander Ford, it was honored at the 1954 Cannes International Film Festival. It was “one of the first Eastern European films which attempted to depict contemporary society in its true colors,” according to “Cinema: A Critical History,”
Presented by the Missouri Southern Film Society and the Institute of International Studies, admission is free and open to the public. The series will continue with a screening of the 1967 Czechoslovakian film “The End of August at the Hotel Ozone” on Tuesday, March 25.
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