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AFI EU Film Showcase: Shadow Country

Date: 15 December 2021 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM, Venue: AFI Silver Theatre

The AFI EU Film Showcase will feature the film Shadow Country (Krajina ve stínu) by Czech director Bohdan Sláma on December 15, at 6:45 pm and December 18, at 2 pm. Meticulously researched, Bohdan Sláma's black-and-white epic is based on real events that occurred in the Sudetenland region in the 1930s and 40s, including the Austrian Anschluss and Nazi occupation, the forced expulsion of the Jewish community and post-war reprisals by Czechs against ethnic Germans. 

About the Film:
Director Bohdan Sláma (THE COUNTRY TEACHER) and screenwriter Ivan Arsenyev create the fictional village of Schwarzwald — a population that is part Austrian and part Czech, located near Austria's border with Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, then ceded to Czechoslovakia after the borders were redrawn following WWII — to explore the turbulent experiences of a divided people during the most terrible of times. Meticulously researched, the film is based on real-life events that occurred in the Sudetenland region in the 1930s and '40s, including the Austrian Anschluss and Nazi occupation, the forced expulsion of the Jewish community and post-war reprisals by Czechs against ethnic Germans, in many cases for opportunistic gain and led by the newly installed Communist authorities. This evocative black-and-white epic was filmed on location in the region its lensed by Sláma's long-time cinematographer Diviš Marek. DIR Bohdan Sláma; SCR Ivan Arsenyev; PROD Jindřich Motýl, Martin Růžička. Czech Republic/Slovak Republic, 2020, 135 min. In Czech with English subtitles. NOT RATED  ~AFI Silver Theatre

2021 AFI European Union Film Showcase
December 1–19

The best of European cinema…without the jet lag.

Now in its 34th year, the AFI European Union Film Showcase continues its tradition of bringing the best in European cinema to Washington, DC-area audiences. This year's selection includes 53 films from all 27 EU Member States, 11 of the top contenders for this year's Academy Award® for Best International Feature Film and 13 U.S. and North American premieres.


EVENT DETAILS:

Location: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Showtimes:
December 15, 2021, at 6:45 pm
December 18, 2021, at 2:00 pm

Tickets:
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/f-0100003210

Proof of vaccination –or– negative Covid PCR test required for entry. Masks required. More info.