New Masters of European Cinema: The Karamazovs  with guest director Petr Zelenka

March 1, 4:30 pm

Set in contemporary Poland, the issues of faith, immortality, and the redemption of man present themselves as powerful emotions of love, jealousy, and hatred play out on a makeshift stage of a dilapidated mill. In its portrayal of searching for God and attempts to prove and reject his/her existence, a line of reason emerges: if there is no God, everything is permitted. The film was the Czech film nomination for the Best Foreign Film Category of the Academy Awards (2008). A question and answer session with the director follows the screening.

The National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium, 4th Street at Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Admission is free
www.nga.gov/programs/film

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