dir. Kenneth MacPherson, 1930, 63 min.
Two couples’ lives become violently intertwined in this avant-garde feature depicting racism in a Swiss village. Paul Robeson stars alongside his wife, Eslanda Robeson, and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
Remarks after the film by Vernoca L. Michael, Director of the Paul Robeson House & Museum, and Dr. Alexander Kauffman, lecturer at Penn and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Film Series copresented by Wolf Humanities Center and Penn Cinema and Media Studies. Program in collaboration with Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia.
Thanks to film series curators, Iggy Cortez, Alexander Kauffman, and Eleni Palis.
