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International Film Festival Continues with "Bride and Prejudice"

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Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The Jake Erhardt International Film Series continues with a 2004 English/India film, "Bride and Prejudice," Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater in the McKelvey Campus Center.

"This film, directed by Gurinder Shadha, is just fun - a Hollywood musical adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice," said Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and film studies and coordinator of this event. "Aishwarya Rai, of India, plays the role of Elizabeth Bennett and Martin Henderson as Mr. Darcy."

The International Film Series was 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 in 1989 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 part of a four-film series, is free and open to the public.

Contact Mitchell at (724) 946-7030 or e-mail dmitchel@westminster.edu for more information.