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The Mid-Atlantic Euroasia Business Council will host all-day events honoring the 80th anniversary of Carl Lutz's great feat to save over 50,000 Jews from the Holocaust during his tenure as Vice-Consul at the Swiss Embassy following his arrival in Budabest Hungary. Email info@ma-rbc.org or call 484-467-7444 for more information!

In this lecture, Mr. Kozyrev will tell his story of his work on the soundtrack of “Brat-2” accompanied by selected scenes from the film.

This event is a discussion with Mikhail Kozyrev, a prominent Russian journalist, music critic, and a producer, and Hunter Heaney, Executive Director of the Voice Project, an advocacy group focused on promoting freedom of artistic expression as an agent of social change (http://voiceproject.org/).

In April 2016, computer technicians at the Democratic National Committee discovered that someone had accessed the organization’s computer servers and conducted a theft that is best described as Watergate 2.0. In the weeks that followed, the nation’s top computer security experts discovered that the cyber thieves had helped themselves to everything: sensitive documents, emails, donor information, even voice mails.

"NEMTSOV", a film by Vladimir Kara-Murza (with English subtitles), presented by Vladimir Kara-Murza Q & A session with Vladimir Kara-Murza and Pavel Khodorkovskiy will follow the screening.

No registration necessary, all are welcome.

A special screening under the Upenn Slavic Department Stage Russia series.
First produced in 1904 at The Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky, this centennial production of Anton Chekhov's classic tale of cultural futility, starring Russian stage and screen legend Renata Litvinova, is as relevant today as it was over a hundred years ago.

A special screening within the Upenn Slavic Department's Stage Russia series

THE BLACK MONK
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Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, THE BLACK MONK tells the tragic tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As he and Tanya develop a relationsship and eventually marry, a black monk of legend begins appearing to Kovrin in visions. Though these hallucinations at first imbue the young man with joy and energy, they eventually lead to his ruin.

A special screening under the Upenn Slavic Department Stage Russia series:

Eugene Onegin

Stage Russia HD opens it’s inaugural season with its live filmed production of the Vakhtangov Theatre's magical Eugene Onegin, a newly reimagined version of the Alexander Pushkin poem created and directed by renowned director, Rimas Tuminas.
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Eugene Onegin has often been referred to as an encyclopedia of 19th century Russian life. Tuminas’ production unfolds in the memory and imagination of Pushkin’s characters. The images are split between past and present, between reality and imagination.
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