Public Lecture: 1968: A Long Time Coming

SCHLÖNDORFF TO GIVE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE AT 1968 CONFERENCE

Voler Schlöndorff will open the conference on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium with his lecture, “1968: A Long Time Coming.” Schlöndorff will also introduce a screening of his film, Young Törless, the following evening, April 27 (Friday) at 7:00 p.m. in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. 

Volker Schlöndorff is a film director, screen writer, and producer from Germany who has worked on over 30 feature-length movies, documentaries, and short films. He is known for bringing German literary works to the screen and for making "unfilmable" subjects accessible to wider audiences. His film, The Tin Drum, won the highest prize at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival—the Palme d’Or—and then won Best Foreign Language Film at the 1980 Academy Awards. Young Törless, his debut feature film, was released in 1966. In the film, Törless and his friends mercilessly bully another student at their boarding school in pre-war Austria-Hungary. The film is a thought-provoking reflection on power-dynamics, order-following, the depth of human cruelty, and the possibility for redemption. Read more.

1968 Conference jointly presented with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. For more information visit the Nanovic Institute event page.