As part of our anti-war film series we’ll be showing All Quiet on the Western Front. The definitive anti-war film, not for the Great War alone, but all wars. It was the most powerful statement about WWI by the generation that fought it. Andrew Kelly writes in Cinema and the Great War: “No war was as violent, pointless and miserable as the First World War. With 8 1/2 million dead and 20 million injured it was a disaster unparalleled in human history. There was nothing great about the Great War, except the scale of despair and destruction.” This film was so controversial that a tangle of different versions exist from the effort to make its uncompromising message palatable to the widest possible audience. The CMC will show the 1979 adaptation.

WHEN: Monday, March 26 @ 8 PM
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 1021 W. University Ave
COST: Donations appreciated.

For more info call: 352.373.0010

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