Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005
The Jake Erhardt International Film Series continues with "A Very Long Engagement" Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"Based on the popular novel of the same name by Sebastian Japrisot, this French film stars Audrey Tautou as the young woman in search of her fiancé who has disappeared," said Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and public relations and coordinator of this event. "Set in France around the end of WWI, her fiancé is one of five French soldiers who shoots himself to avoid the Somme trenches. The performances are excellent, as is the anti-war message."
The International Film Series is 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.
