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SUMMARY:Dropouts and Dreamers Film Series: THE WAY STEEL WAS TEMPERED (198
 8)
LOCATION:Humanities Quadrangle L01\, 320 York Street\, New Haven\, CT 0651
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DESCRIPTION:DCP | 1988 | directed by Želimir Žilnik | Yugoslavia | 101 min
 utes | BCMS with English subtitles\n\nFree admission. No registration req
 uired.\n\nSteelworker Leo is surrounded by chaos at work and at home. Whi
 le the decaying factory is drowning in corruption\, his marriage is ruine
 d after he falls for a teenage girl. But when foreign business partners a
 nd collectors of socialist realism visit the factory\, they are so impres
 sed by its atmosphere and by Leo as an authentic example of a socialist w
 orker that they offer him a promising career abroad as an antiquated curi
 osity. Over half a century after Nikolai Ostrovskii's novel How the Steel
  Was Tempered\, Želimir Žilnik's absurdist comedy revisits socialist real
 ist classics from the ruins of its utopian project.\n\nPost-screening dis
 cussion led by Lora Maslenitsyna (Slavic Department/ Film and Media Studi
 es) will follow.\n\nThis screening is part of the “Dropouts and Dreamers:
  Films of the Socialist 1980s” series\, which explores the experiences of
  youth in the state socialist world during the transformative period of t
 he 1980s.\n\nPresented by The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial
  Fund\, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.\n\nhttp://next-to
 -u.app/events/60c275bf-0368-4852-9b5c-0d92e31e81e4
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