Powerful strokes portray life

Art depicts life in all its colours with human beings, their hopes, victory and defeat, joy and pain. This week we can witness the works ...

Art depicts life in all its colours with human beings, their hopes, victory and defeat, joy and pain. This week we can witness the works of Vaishali Pathak, Vikram Kulkarni, Shakuntala Patade and Supriya Wadgaonkar. The German movie this week is Das Winterhaus, which makes the point of how personal crises and problems of life overshadow questions of politics. The French movie Au Revoir Les Infants focuses on life in a boarding school.Alliance Francaise de Poona: Au Revoir Les Infants Goodbye Children 1987, Col., 103 min.

Directed by Louis Malle, the cast includes Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Recette and Phillipe Morier Genoud.

In January 1944, in a Catholic secondary school near Paris, Julien Quentine 8211; son of an industrialist of Lille 8211; sees a new pupil, Jean Bonnet, arrive in his class. He is in many ways different from the other boys. His curiosity is aroused and as he gradually learns about who Jean Bonnet is and the tragedy that threatens him, a strong friendship develops between the two. This story is about life in a boy8217;s boarding school in wartime France and one boy8217;s discovery of the brutality and violence of the adult world. At 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Max Mueller Bhavan: Das Winterhaus The Winter House 1987, Col., 95 min.Directed by Hilder Lermann, the camera is handled by Rolf Romberg. The cast includes Elfride Rcukert and Werner Kreindi. Hilder Lermann8217;s television play Das Winterhaus tells us of one chapter of German postwar history full of personal crises. Floods, shortages, poverty, housing and unemployment are such subjects of concern that the characters cannot worry about politics. The story centres around seventy-year-old Lotte who can no longer stand living in an old people8217;s home and asks her daughter if she can move in with her. At 7 p.m. on Friday.

National Film Archive of India: The Body Snatcher USA/ 1945/ Bamp;W/ 77 min. Directed by Robert Wise, the cast includes Boris Karloff, Bela Lugost, Henry Daniel, Edith Atwater and Russel Wade.

Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson and given a tightly scripted adaptation by Philip McDonald and Carlos Keith, this is an excellent low-budget Val Newton horror thriller of the macabre. Boris Karloff plays a grave robber in early 19th century Edinburgh who steals newly-buried corpses and sells them to doctors for study purposes. He portrays his sadistic role in characteristic style. Bela Lugosi is seen briefly as a handyman at the medical school. At 6.30 p.m. on Saturday.

Prema Tujha Rang Kasa: Written by Vasant Kanetkar . At Balgandharva Rangmandir, 5 p.m. on Saturday.

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