Before end of this year 2014, we wanted to take the opportunity to restart cinema evenings at the Catalan Center in Luxembourg and we are back with a small cycle commemorating the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. We have chosen three anti-war films: Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957), Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1971) and King and Country (Joseph Losey, 1964); and a Spanish one that places the action in Barcelona in the same period: The truth about the Savolta case (Antonio Drove, 1979).
We will show the films at the Center Català premises (88, Rue de la Semois) in original version with French subtitles. It will be approximately every month or month and a half depending on activities and holidays. We invite you to the first one:
Thursday 4 of December of 2014 at 19:15 h, Paths of Glory (“Paths of glory”) de Stanley Kubrick (1957). Amb Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker i Adolphe Menjou.
France, 1916. During the First World War, General Boulard orders the capture of an impregnable German position and assigns this task to the ambitious General Mireau. This, in turn, orders Colonel Dax to lead the attack. The hill dam turns out to be hell, and the regiment returns to its positions. The military high command, irritated by defeat, decides to punish and set an example for the soldiers.