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Film Screening & Talk about Deportation Experience
April 21, 2014
YSU Slavic Student Association in conjunction with YSU English Festival will present a screening of "The Way Back".
The 2010 Academy Award nominated epic adventure drama tells the story of a Polish POW in the Soviet Gulag. The screening will be preceded by discussion with Eugene Bak, director of the Polish American Cultural Center in Cleveland, who will share his family story of Siberian deportation under Soviet rule. The FREE screening will take place on April 23, 2014 at 6PM in 132 DeBartolo Auditorium on the YSU campus (by parking deck M2).
Slavic Students Association is a student group interested in Slavic studies and topics on Youngstown State University campus. One of its aims is to offer fun and educative programming to the Mahoning Valley community about Slavic culture.
The screening will take place on is FREE and open to the public but donations are welcome.
Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.
"The Way Back"
Director: Peter Weir
Writers: Keith R. Clarke (screenplay), Slavomir Rawicz (novel)
Stars: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell
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