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Ivo Josipović, President of the Republic of Croatia, won the Presidential elections on 10 January 2010 and took his oath of office as President of the Republic of Croatia on 18 February 2010.
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Blog Archives
Luncheon: President of Croatia on Reconciliation & Criminal Responsibility for War Crimes, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, May 2
Film: The Righteous Enemy, Cassidy Theater, January 28
The Righteous Enemy
At the height of World War II, while the Nazis and most of their allies were deporting and exterminating the Jews of Europe, some 40,000 found protection in the most unlikely of places: territories occupied by the army of Fascist Italy. In areas under their occupation in Croatia, France and Greece, Italian soldiers and diplomats refused to collaborate in the “Final Solution”, despite orders from Mussolini himself to comply with the German requests.
This documentary film takes the form of a personal investigation by the director, Joseph Rochlitz, whose father, Imre Rochlitz was saved by the Italians in occupied Croatia. The film widens out to describe the Italian rescue efforts in France and Greece between 1941 and 1943, and seeks to understand the motives behind this extraordinary Italian attitude. Produced in 1987 and re-edited in 1994, this documentary includes rare interviews with some of the protagonists of the Italian rescue efforts, as well as the testimony of Jews saved by their actions.
Historical consultants appearing in the film are Menachem Shelah (Yad Vashem, Israel) and Serge Klarsfeld, the French lawyer and historian. The wartime memoirs of Imre Rochlitz, Accident of Fate, on which this documentary is based, are scheduled to be published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2011.
Directed by Joseph Rochlitz, 57 minutes. Presented with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
| Dates: Jan 28, 2011 |
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| Location: Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington St., Claudia Cassidy Theater Chicago, IL 60602 |
27th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Information taken from http://www.cicff.org/
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival is the largest festival for films for children in North America.
Bellow is a short digest of some of the films from the CEERES regions of the world.
Follow this link to a different post about Russian films.
Saturday, October 23:
Log Jam: “KJFG No. 5″ (Hungary) – 9:30am
Ice Master (Latvia) – 11:00am
Head Dwellers Part 2: “Neighboring” (Hungary) – 1:00pm
Sunday, October 24:
Dog and Flea (Croatia) – 9:30am, 3:00pm
Tiger (Latvia) – 11:00am
The Widely Travelled Little Mouse (Hungary) – 11:00am
Correctional Facility for Parents (Croatia) – 1:00pm
Alarm Clock (Croatia) – 3:00pm
In the Attic (Czech Republic) – 7:00pm
Log Jam (Hungary) – 9:00pm
Saturday, October 30
Log Jam (Hungary) – 9:30am, 3:00pm
Shammies: “How Shammies Bathed” (Latvia) – 9:30am
How the Bunny Didn’t Turn to Be Someone Else (Russia) – 9:30am
Two Princesses (Russia) – 11:00am
Cello (Russia) – 1:00pm
Tiger (Latvia) – 3:00pm
The Most Scary Animal (Russia) – 3:00pm
Sunday, October 31
Shammies: “How Shammies Bathed” (Latvia) – 9:30am
Polish Fairy Tales: “Winter Fairies” (Poland) – 9:30am
Blue Magic (Croatia) – 1:00pm
World Renowned Croatian Classical Guitarist Srdjan Bulat to Perform Live in Chicago, May 16
World Renowned Classical Guitarist
From Split, Croatia
SRDJAN BULAT
LIVE IN CONCERT
Sunday, May 16th 2010
6:00 p.m.
International House
1414 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For additional information on all Croatian Days 2010 events, please call 312-482-9902 or find us
on Facebook at http://tinyurl.com/cadays2010. Brought to you by The Croatian Consulate General of Chicago & the Croatian American Days Committee.
Persons with disabilities that may need assistance should contact the Office of Programs
& External Relations in advance of the program at 773-753-2274