British Film Featured at Westminster's International Film Series

The Jake Erhardt International Film Series concludes with the British film, "Ladies in Lavender," Tuesday, May 2, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.

"This film, based on a short story by William J. Locke, stars Judi Drench and Maggie Smith as two sisters living in Cornwell in the 1930s," said Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and public relations at Westminster.  "The sisters find a stranger washed up on shore and nurse him back to health." 

The International Film Series is named in honor of its founder, Dr. Jacob Erhardt, professor emeritus of German at Westminster College.  Erhardt, who taught at Westminster 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 the final movie in 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.

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