Posted on Monday, October 17, 2005
The Jake Erhardt International Film Series continues with the Best Foreign Film Oscar winner, "La Strada," Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"This film is classic Federico Fellini with his unusual cast of bizarre, but compelling, characters," said Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and public relations and coordinator of this event. "Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina are stunning as muscleman Zampano who buys a young woman, Gelsomina, from her poverty stricken mother for a few coins. Gelsomina then follows Zampano on the road, helping him with the wrestling show. Richard Basehart stars as the acrobat, or fool, they encounter in their travels.
The International Film Series was recently 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 part of 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.
