FYI-Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia U. sponsors FREE Italian film on Nov. 8th!!!

UFCCU EVENT:

THE UNKNOWN (La Sconosciuta), 2006
[Never released in the USA]

When: November 8, 2007, Thursday, at 7:30 PM.
Where: 702 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University.

The screening will be followed by Q&A and discussion, mediated by Yuri Shevchuk, the Film Club's director. The event is free and open to the public. The film will be shown in its Italian language version with English subtitles.

This film is Italy?s official entry for the Oscar?s best foreign language film award in 2008.

As part of our on-going series Ukraine. A View from the West, the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University will hold a Special November Event featuring THE UNKNOWN (La Sconosciuta) ? a drama by the world-acclaimed Italian filmmaker and Oscar-winner Giuseppe Tornatore. This film tells a story of Iryna, a young Ukrainian woman who gets ensnared by the Italian criminals and turned into a sex slave. She spends years in captivity compelled to work in a violent kind of sex club, one where she is beaten, chained, raped, and exploited on a daily base.

The film raises the problem of human trafficking from Ukraine and Eastern Europe, that has attracted increasing attention of Western filmmakers and the general public. Tornatore's "La Sconosciuta", is a wonderful first-class thriller, visually rich and supported by a gripping music composed by Ennio Morricone.

For more info, email event organizer Yuri Shevchuk, the Univ. Film Club's director:
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