The Mortal Storm (1940), film screening


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The Mortal Storm (1940), film screening

Veteran Hollywood director Frank Borzage’s moving adaptation of Phyllis Bottome’s popular domestic melodrama dramatizes the growth of Nazism in Germany through the lives of ordinary people.  The film specifically focuses on the Roth family, which is torn apart when siblings take sides (militant embrace and silent, but steadfast resistance) and their non-Ayrian step-father (The Wizard of Oz‘s Frank Morgan) suffers progressively greater injustices under the Third Reich’s policies.  Directing the luminous Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart and a cast of expert character actors, Borzage once again demonstrates his aptitude for depicting “souls made great by adversity,” this time on the stage of world history.   100 min.

Part of the Emory Cinematheque series “Resisting Fascism.” Each film in the series will be introduced by Paul Buchholz, assistant professor of German Studies, with contributions from other faculty in Emory’s Department of German Studies.

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September 06 2017

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Date: September 6, 2017
Time: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost: Free


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