Northwestern Events Calendar

Feb
24
2017

Another Way [Egymásra Nézve] [Film]

When: Friday, February 24, 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT

Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: $4.00 for Northwestern University faculty, staff and students with valid WildCARD; students from other schools with valid college/university ID; seniors 60 and older
$6.00 for the general public
$20.00 for a quarterly pass

Contact: Lindsay Bosch   (847) 467-4602

Group: Block Museum of Art

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

Egymásra Nézve [Another Way]

Friday, February 24, 2017 7:00 PM
(Károly Makk, 1982, Hungary, DCP, 102 min.)


Set in 1958, Another Way follows Éva, an idealistic journalist fighting to expose the abuses of the state. Éva falls in love with her beautiful coworker Lívia, who, unfortunately, is married to a brutish officer in the Hungarian army. Produced while Hungary was part of the Soviet bloc, led by the communist János Kádár, Károly Makk's film tackles two taboo subjects simultaneously: political repression and sexual oppression. Not only was Another Way the first mainstream Hungarian film to deal with lesbianism, it was also the first film to call the 1956 political resistance to Soviet occupation a “revolution,” rather than using the officially-sanctioned term “counter-revolution.” Whether or not the sexual theme was a smokescreen for the subversive political content, Another Way gathered a cult following among Hungarian lesbians during the Cold War. The screenplay was written by the Hungarian writer Erzsébet Galgóczi, based on her loosely autobiographical 1980 novella Within the Law [Törvényen belül].

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About the Film Program

“The Gay Left”: Homosexuality in the Era of Late Socialism

In an East Berlin gay bar in 1989, an old man explains his commitment to the communist party’s project of equality after World War II: “We stopped mankind’s exploitation by mankind. Now it does not matter if the person you work with is a Jew or whatever. Except gays. They were forgotten somehow.” The only official film from the German Democratic Republic dealing with homosexuality, "Coming Out", by Heiner Carow, ends with these lines. Similarly, this film series asks how the ideologies of communism, socialism, and capitalism address sexual minorities.

Including work from both sides of the Iron Curtain, “The Gay Left” brings multiple perspectives and historical moments into conversation in order to fight against forgetting.

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