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C-RS NEW JERSEY CHAPTER MEETING
Co-Hosted by the Rusyn Outpost: North America
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Rusyn Film Festival
Enjoy a unique afternoon with Brian Pozun and Jerry Chanda as they present a series of Rusyn films. Segments of Rusyn films or films about Rusyns will be shown along with commentary by Brian and Jerry to provide a most enjoyable winter afternoon.
Segments of the following nine films will be presented:
1. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - A classic feature film about a love
affair between people of hostile families set in the 1800s among the Hutsuls
in the eastern Carpathians.
2. Russky Potok - A short documentary that examines the first
post-communist elections in a Rusyn village in Czechoslovakia.
3. Stories and Legends of Ladomyrova - A series of vignettes about Rusyn
villagers' memories of bygone days.
4. Jakub - A documentary about the people of a Rusyn village in Romania who
were relocated to the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia after World War I.
5. Pisne Polonin - A documentary on the musical traditions of Subcarpathian
Rus'.
6. Balada pro Banditu - A musical, similar to the American musical
"Hair", based on the novel Nikola the Bandit by Ivan Olbracht.
7. The Warhol Nation - A short documentary on attitudes towards Andy Warhol
amongst the Rusyns of Slovakia.
8. A Legacy of Faith - A recently-produced documentary about St. Nicholas of
Myra Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church in New York City.
9. The Deer Hunter - A classic film about the relationships between four
second-generation Rusyns during the Vietnam War period from a blue-collar
steel town of Clairton in western Pennsylvania.
Wayne Public Library, 461 Valley Road, Wayne, New Jersey
Saturday, February 14, 2004 - 2:00 p.m.
Free admission, open to the public; refreshments will be served.
Directions: Take Route 46 W to the Riverview Drive Wayne-Totowa Exit or Route 46 E and follow detour signs for Riverview Drive. Take Riverview Drive to the traffic light at Valley Road and turn right. Proceed on Valley Road to the second traffic light and turn left onto Nellis Drive and then turn right into the Library parking lot.
From Manhattan: Take the New Jersey Transit 197 bus from
Port Authority on 42nd Street to Wayne (Valley Road & Preakness Ave.
Stop). Busses leave Saturdays at various times, but the most convenient
leaves at 1:00 and arrives at 1:47. Bus stop is just across the street from
the Wayne Municipal Building, which also houses the library.
More info: call (609) 882-4872 or e-mail
Jerry Chanda.
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