Westminster's International Film Festival Continues

The Jake Erhardt International Film Series continues with Farewell My Concubine Tuesday, March 7, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater
located in the McKelvey Campus Center.

 "Kaige Chen's epic film is based on Lillian Lee's novel, which was banned in China," said Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and public relations and coordinator of this event.  "Within the context of 50 years of Chinese political history, the film centers on two men who meet as performers in the Peking Opera and explores their 50-year friendship.  This film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film, but lost out to Belle Epoque."

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 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.

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