[Hamp-law] Law Program kicks off Human Rights Film Series Mon Sep 26 at 7pm

[Flavio Risech]

Please join us for the first screening of the 2011-12 Human Rights film 
series sponsored by the Hampshire Law Program.
On Monday September 26, see the historic 1961 motion picture/Judgment at 
Nuremberg /directed by Stanley Kramer and featuring a cast that reads 
like a "who's who" of the golden age of Hollywood: Spencer Tracy, Burt 
Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy 
Garland, Montgomery Clift. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including 
Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing, it won Best Actor (Schell) 
and Best Screenplay. In glorious black and white. The film pioneered the 
use of documentary wartime footage within a narrative film; some of it 
is graphic and may be disturbing to some viewers.

Film buffs and those interested in human rights will appreciate the 
film's excellent acting and production values, and its probing questions 
about the nature of evil, the dilemmas of complicity or resistance to 
illegitimate authority, and the question of appropriate guilt and 
punishment for the unthinkable crimes of the Nazi era. Of particular 
interest to the Law Program is the film's focus on the nature of justice 
during Hitler's Third Reich: the defendants are the Nazi judges, charged 
with gross abuses of the law.

Please join us at 7:00pm in FPH 106. All welcome. And watch for further 
announcements in the Human Rights series. If you wish to nominate a 
particular film for screening please contact me, we are open for 
suggestions.

-- 
Flavio Risech
Associate Professor of Law
School of Critical Social Inquiry
Hampshire College
Amherst MA 01002
413.559.5504 voice
413.559.5620 fax
frisech at hampshire.edu

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