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Westminster College International Film Series to Show Ang Lee Film

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Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Westminster College’s Jake Erhardt International Film Series will show Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater.  The program is free and open to the public.

IMDb.com describes director Ang Lee’s 2000 film, based on the book by Du Lu Wang, as set in China at a time when miracles were credible and spirits and gods were present in man’s world. Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to a nobleman’s impetuous adolescent daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

The film earned four Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for six more.

The final film this semester is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 15.

The International Film Series is named in honor of its founder, Dr. Jacob Erhardt, professor of German emeritus 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.

Contact Dr. Deborah Mitchell at 724-946-7030 or email dmitchel@westminster.edu for more information.