The Swedish Program of Columbia University Presents


TWO LECTURES ON SWEDISH THEATER AND FILM

by Swedish theater and film historian and translator

LEIF JANZON
On Friday, February 22, at 7 p.m. in Deutsches Haus,
420 West 116th St. NYC (between Amsterdam and Morningside Drive
 
EXORCISING ONSTAGE:
INGMAR BERGMAN'S THEATER.
 
Since 1942, Ingmar Bergman's stage work in Sweden has been both controversial and celebrated. First seen at major theaters outside Stockholm, from the sixties at the Royal Dramatic Theater and at the Royal Opera, his productions have since the eighties also visited USA. Leif Janzon has followed his work closely since the sixties and shows the continuous interaction between his theater and his films and TV productions, with "the Bergman actors" as an important common denominator. Bergman's work is also considered in its cultural, social, and biographical context.
And on Wednesday, February 27, at 7 p.m. in Deutsches Haus
THE SMILE OF GARBO:
THE EMIGRANT.
One of the most fascinating and elusive film stars of our times, Garbo early rose to cult status. Having grown up poor on Stockholm’s South Side, Greta Gustafson - like so many Swedes before her - became a US emigrant. To most Swedes, Garbo is not primarily a mystery, but an easily comprehensible Swedish fate, one among hundreds of thousands compatriots, who out of poverty, ambitions, and dreams, were forced to leave their physical and spiritual home. Her professional and private life is seen by Leif Janzon as emblematic of Sweden's social transformation since the late 19th century.
 
 
And on Friday, March 1 at 12 noon in 717 Hamilton Hall., A screening of
  Using recently released letters, biographies, de Acosta's poems and autobiography, prize-winning producer Lena Einhorn has made a documentary portrait of the very private Greta Garbo. Mercedes de Acosta, who knew Garbo for thirty years, until 1960 when the Swedish star broke all contact, will be our escort in this film, following the film star’s life -- from her childhood in Stockholm to glamorous but hated Hollywood, to exile in New York.
(Mercedes de Acosta was also a love interest for Marlene Dietrich, Isadora Duncan, and Eva le Gallienne.) In color with English narration. Running Time: 58 minutes.		 LOVING GRETA GARBO:
A PORTRAIT
OF THE SWEDISH ACTRESS THROUGH THE LETTERS
OF MERCEDES DE ACOSTA
By Lena Einhorn		  
 

Sponsored by the Swedish Program together with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Institute for the Study of Europe at Columbia University together with the Swedish Institute.
For information: Tel.: 212-854-7859; e-mail: vam1@columbia.edu.
 
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