Posted on Friday, October 2, 2009
The Jake Erhardt International Film Series will show the Swedish film Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater in the McKelvey Campus Center.
The event is free and open to the public. A short introduction will be given prior to the showing and a discussion will follow.
The 2008 film won numerous awards, including the Saturn Award for Best International Film and the Austin Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
In the movie, Eli has been 12 years old for 200 years and she just moved in next door. Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
This is the second film in the series for this academic year. One additional film for the fall semester, Tell No One (France, 2006), is scheduled for Nov. 10.
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, Westminster associate professor of English and coordinator of the film series, at (724) 946-7030 or e-mail dmitchel@westminster.edu for more information.
