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<strong>The</strong> <strong>International</strong> Newletter <strong>of</strong> <strong>Communist</strong> Studies Online <strong>XIII</strong> (<strong><strong>20</strong>07</strong>), <strong>no</strong> <strong>20</strong> 199<br />
Section X:<br />
Cultural and Artistic Performances concerning History <strong>of</strong><br />
Communism.<br />
Sacco and Vanzetti. New Documentary Coming Up.<br />
<strong>The</strong> New-York-based director Peter Miller produced a new documentary "Sacco and Vanzetti"<br />
(USA, 80min), dealing with the famous case <strong>of</strong> the two Italian anarchists who got executed in<br />
1927, and <strong>of</strong>fering insights into present-day issues <strong>of</strong> civil liberties and the rights <strong>of</strong><br />
immigrants. While the theatrical release is planned in early <strong><strong>20</strong>07</strong>, several pre-screenings have<br />
been taken place on different occasions all over the US. More information under<br />
http://www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html.<br />
Olga Benario Ho<strong>no</strong>red in Brazilian Movie and Opera.<br />
"Olga", the <strong>20</strong>04 movie by Brazilian filmmaker Jayme Monjardim deals with the biography <strong>of</strong><br />
Olga Benario Prestes, the German wife <strong>of</strong> the Brazilian communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes,<br />
who was, after the failed Brazilian communist uprising in 1935, incarcerated and deported to<br />
Germany, where she died in a concentration camp. <strong>The</strong> film, covering Benario's whole life,<br />
including her early engagement in the German communist movement and her time in the<br />
Comintern apparatus, had three winnings and six more <strong>no</strong>minations at the Cinema Brazil<br />
Grand Prize in <strong>20</strong>05. In late <strong>20</strong>06 it was screened in selected cinemas in Germany. In <strong>20</strong>06 as<br />
well, an opera about her life by Jorge Antunes premiered on October 14 at the <strong>The</strong>atro<br />
Municipal in São Paulo, Brazil.<br />
"Le Brahmane du Komintern." New Documentary on M. N. Roy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> French filmmaker Vladimir Léon recently released a documentary entitled "Le Brahmane<br />
du Komintern", dealing with the life <strong>of</strong> M. N. Roy, early Indian communist, Comintern activist<br />
in Mexico and theorician <strong>of</strong> the South- and Middle-Asian workers' movement. More information<br />
can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832439/.