C-RS NEW YORK CHAPTER
 
  Presents
 
 RUSYN FILM FESTIVAL
 
  Saturday, January 26, 2008
1:30-3:30pm
 (Snow date: Saturday, February 2, 2008)
   at 
         The New York Public Library
        Mulberry Street Branch
 
Enjoy a unique afternoon with the Carpatho-Rusyn Society (New York Chapter)
as they present a series of films about Carpatho-Rusyns. Segments of 9 Rusyn
films or films about Rusyns will be shown along with commentary to provide a
most enjoyable winter afternoon.
 
Segments of the following nine films will be presented:
 
1. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS: A Russian feature film about
a love affair between people of hostile families set in the 1800s among the
Hutsuls in the eastern Carpathians.
 
2. RUSSKY POTOK: A short documentary that examines the first post-communist
elections in a Rusyn village in Czechoslovakia.
 
3. STORIES AND LEGEND OF LADOMYROVA: A series of vignettes about
Rusyn villagers' memories of bygone days.
 
4. JAKUB: A documentary about the people of a Rusyn village in Romania who
were relocated to the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia after World War II.
 
5. PISNE POLONIN: A documentary on the musical traditions of Subcarpathian Rus.
 
6. BALADA pro BANDITU: A musical, similar to the American musical 'Hair', based
on the novel Nikola the Bandit by Ivan Olbracht.
 
7. THE WARHOL NATION: A short documentary on attitudes towards Andy Warhol
amongst the Rusyns of Slovakia.
 
8. A LEGACY OF FAITH: A documentary about St. Nicholas of Myra Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church in New York City. 
 
9. THE DEER HUNTER: A U.S. film about the relationships between four second-
generation Rusyns during the Vietnam War period from a blue-collar steel town
of Clairton in western Pennsylvania.
 
Free Admission     Open to the Public    Refreshments will be served
Held at:

Mulberry Street Branch Library
10 Jersey Street (Between Lafayette & Mulberry Sts)
Manhattan, New York 10012-3332
212-966-3424
 
Travel Directions:
 
MTA SUBWAY:  B, D, F, V  to Broadway-Lafayette stop.
Walk one block south on Lafayette Street to Jersey St.
 
6 to Bleecker Street. Walk one block south on Lafayette St
to Jersey St.
 
MTA BUS: M103- Third Avenue. Houston Street stop.
Walk three blocks west to Mulberry Street and one block
south to Jersey St.
 
M5- Southbound on Fifth Avenue to Houston Street. Walk
two blocks east to Lafayette Street and one block south to
Jersey St.
 
M6- Southbound on Broadway to Houston Street. Walk two
blocks east to Lafayette Street and one block south to
Jersey St.
 
More information: call (609) 882-4872 or email: jchanda@bergen.edu