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Film buffs in for a treat

The Cochin Film Society is screening a film each from Poland and Germany. The screening will begin at 6 p.m. at IMA Hall on June 22.

The Cochin Film Society is screening a film each from Poland and Germany.

The Polish film Days of Mathew, made in 1968 by Witold Luszczynski, is a sympathetic study of loneliness experienced by a grown-up man having the mind of a child. Mathew, living with his sister Olga, in a house by the edge of a lake, is dependent on her care and guidance.

But Olga falls in love with a woodcutter, whom Mathew brings home. Terrified of his sister leaving him, Mathew decides to kill himself.

The film, part of the monthly archive screening programme of the society, held in association with the National Film Archives of India, Pune, will be screened at Savitha Theatre from 9.30 a.m. on Sunday.

The German film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, made in 2005 by Marc Rothemund, has won many awards. The film tells the story of Sophie Scholl, who was active in the anti-Nazi movement during the last days of Hitler's regime. The White Rose, a resistance movement aiming for the fall of the Third Reich, was formed in Munich in 1943 by a group of young people, most of them university students. Sophie becomes the only woman in the group.

On February 18, 1942, she and her brother Hans are arrested after getting caught while distributing leaflets at the university. They are interrogated by the Gestapo officer Robert Mohr. The interrogation develops into an intense psychological duel in which Sophie tries to outwit her opponent. However, the evidence against them mounts up, though Sophie tries hard to save her brother and other members of White Rose. Mohr, impressed by Sophie's uncommon bravery, offers her a way out, at the price of betraying her ideals. She refuses to take the offer. Sophie, her brother Hans Scholl and their aide Christoph Probe were guillotined a few hours after the death sentence was delivered. The film shows the last days of her life. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for best foreign language film and won Silver Bears for the best director and best actress at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2005.

The screening will begin at 6 p.m. at IMA Hall, Warriam Road, on June 22.

R.R.

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