Posted on Tuesday, November 1, 2005
The Jake Erhardt International Film Series continues with the Best Foreign Film Oscar winner, "The Official Story," Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"Critics have called this 1985 film a 'knockout,' and it is," said Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and public relations and coordinator of this event. "Norma Aleandro plays a high school history professor in Buenos Aires, married to a successful lawyer, whose perfect life spirals out of control when she begins to suspect that her five-year-old adopted daughter is the child of a political prisoner."
The International Film Series was recently named in honor of its founder, Dr. Jacob Erhardt, professor emeritus of German at ¾¨Ó㴫ý. Erhardt, who taught at ¾¨Ó㴫ý from 1968 until his retirement in 2004, served as chair of his department from 1970-1986, was named the Language Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania State Modern Languages Association, translated into English Robert Reitzel's Adventures of a Greenhorn, and was recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as an outstanding member.
The event, which is part of a ten-film series, is free and open to the public
Contact Mitchell at (724) 946-7030 or e-mail dmitchel@westminster.edu for more information.
