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Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/21/2024
5:00 pm
Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Categories
Head to Spurlock Museum for a free screening of The Guide (2014, Ukraine) as part of the Stand With Ukraine Through Film Initiative on Monday, October 21, 5:00pm at the Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL). This event is free and open to the public.
Film Synopsis: Early 1930s. Peter is a ten-year-old boy in the midst of turbulent Soviet Ukraine. His father, an American engineer, is killed for obtaining secret documents about the repressions, which now are hidden in Peter’s book. The boy flees from the police with a blind kobzar (Ukrainian folk minstrel), Ivan Kocherga. Ivan does everything to help his young guide to grow up and survive with a kind and clear soul that will not be hardened by what his eyes have seen. He tells his young guide elaborate stories that make him believe there can be a different reality from what he sees around him. We are challenged to admit the blind kobzar may see the world with greater clarity than those with perfect eyes.
Language: Ukrainian with English subtitles
Cosponsored by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center; the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures; and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
Questions? Email us at reec@illinois.edu.
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