December Programme

METRO FILM SOCIETY in association with

CAC, Ernakulam & National Film Archive of India

Dear Andrei
Remembering Andrei Tarkovsky
Three Day Film Fest - 16 - 18 December 2011

CAC Auditorium
16 - 12 - 2011, 6.15 pm. - The Killers, SOLARIS

Solaris (1972)

The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out to replace him. He finds the station run-down and the two remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for seven years, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence

17 - 12 - 2011, 5.30 pm. - Steamroller and the violin, STALKER

Stalker (1979)

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's numerous objections, a man rises in the dead of night: he's a stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true. That night, he takes two people into the Zone: a popular writer who is burned out, cynical, and questioning his genius; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey. In the deserted Zone, the approach to the Room must be indirect. As they draw near, the rules seem to change and the stalker faces a crisis.

Sangeetha Theatre
18 - 12 - 2011, 9.00 am - THE SACRIFICE

The Sacrifice (1986)

Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all