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New Delhi

"Little Europe" on the big screen

Parul Sharma

Films from Central and Eastern Europe

NEW DELHI: A treat awaits cinemagoers in the Capital who will get a taste of the flavour of life and society of Central and Eastern Europe through a unique film festival that opened here on Monday.

Ten-day festival

The ten-day-long festival, "Little Europe 2007 -- Comedy and Satire", has been organised by the Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies of the South Campus of Delhi University along with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in New Delhi.

There will be a film from each of the participating countries -- Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Serbia -- to be screened at the S. P. Jain Centre Auditorium of Delhi University's South Campus.

The films will make an attempt to show different aspects of life in a lighter tone. So if Czech film "Babi leto" (The Autumn Spring) that was screened on the opening day was about a young-at-heart 75-year-old dreamer who refuses to reconcile himself with his age, Croatian film "Sto je muskarac bez brkova" (What Is A Man Without A Moustache) deals with the story of a young widow, an ageing widower and a priest who are struggling to come to terms with the post-War environment. The film will be screened on Tuesday.

While "Orkestar bez ime" (A Nameless Band) that will be shown on February 20 describes the life of the young generation in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Bulgaria, the Russian film "Vovochka" on February 21 traces the life of a 10-year-old spontaneous and indefatigable boy who happens to be quite a handful for the grown-ups around him. In a bid to draw more audiences, all the films have been provided with subtitles in English.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the programme is critical evaluation of the movies by academic experts that will be held after every screening.

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