Special Screening:
Richard Kaplan’s Varian
and Putzi: A 20th Century Tale
February 26, 2004
Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator,
Department of Film and Media.
. 2003. USA. Written, produced, and directed
by Richard Kaplan. The premiere of a documentary about two Americans
who graduated from Harvard and took different paths during the rise
of the Third Reich: Varian Fry, who rescued hundreds of European
artists and intellectuals from the Nazis, and Ernst “Putzi”
Hanfstängel, who, until his return to the United States in
1937, was Hitler’s foreign press chief. Introduced by the
director. 80 min.
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