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Kati Marton & Volker Schlöndorff
Thursday, November 12, 2009
7:00 PM
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Chronicling her journey from Cold War Budapest where her family was deemed "Enemies of the People," accomplished journalist Kati Marton speaks with renowned filmmaker, Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum)about opening Pandora’s box when requesting her family’s secret police files in Budapest.
Against the background of one of the Soviet occupations of Eastern Europe, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America is a story of love and survival.
About Kati Marton
Kati Marton, born in Hungary, is the author of seven books, including The Great Escape, Hidden Power and Presidential Marriages That Shaped History, which was a New York Times bestseller. Her most recent book, Enemies of the People: A Family’s Escape to America, will be released by Simon & Schuster in October 2009. She has hosted NPR's America and the World, has been a Bonn Bureau Chief for ABC, has reported for NPR in Washington, and was one of the developers of All Things Considered. She has won a Peabody Award. She is married to Richard Holbrooke and lives in New York City.
About Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff first film Young Torless based on Robert Musil's novella won the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes in 1966. His 1979 adaptation of Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum was the first film by a German director to be awarded the Golden Palm at Cannes and the first German film since 1927 to win the Oscar. Schlöndorff has also directed several Franco-German co productions, notably Swann in Love adapted from the novel by Marcel Proust. In 1984 he shot a filmed version of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller with Dustin Hoffman in New York. This film gave him the opportunity to work with John Malkovich for the first time. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Schlöndorff returned to Germany to film Homo Faber (Voyager) with Sam Shepard. In Eric-Emmanuell’s play The Enigma Variations marked Schlodorff's return to the stage in 2004. That same year he also directed a production of House of the Dead for the Berlin Opera.
Tickets: $25 general admission and $15 library donors, students and seniors with valid identification.
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South Court Auditorium, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street,
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