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Touristic Intents—Can a Building be Guilty?

Event Type: Film Screening
Sponsor: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Date: Nov 4, 2024 5:00 pm
Contact: Anke Pinkert
E-Mail: pinkert@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Campus Humanities Calendar; The documentary touristic intents centers on the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, built to house 20,000 working-class Germans and used in propaganda to advance a promise of leisure time for the masses. The film asks: Is there an obligation to remember a building’s dark past? The screening will be followed by Q & A with director Mat Rappaport, the Donald W. Klein Professor of the Practice in Film and Media Studies at Tufts University.