Film Screening: Black Thursday (Czarny czwartek, Antoni Krauze, 2011)
- Starts: 5:00 pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2014
- Ends: 8:00 pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2014
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Still a painfully remembered event, the brutally suppressed shipyard strikes of December 1970 get a stirring, street-level dramatization from Antoni Krauze that focuses on the tragic story of Brunon Drywa and family. When protests spread among coastal towns, troops in Gdynia responded by firing on people on their way to work; the victims would include Drywa, who was shot in the back. Filming on historic locations in Gdynia, Krauze forcefully brings to the screen a rarely depicted yet pivotal chapter in Polish history.
Introduction by Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History and Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic. Screening takes place in conjunction with The Changing Face of Eastern Europe (IR 543).
- Location:
- Boston University College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B-05