Awesome, Gisele! In the days of the tall ships and colonial rule of the South Pacific, a naive native sailor working as first mate on an island hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed in Tahiti for striking a racist planter with government connections. His attempts to escape imprisonment and return to his home island and young wife are contrasted with the attitudes of the white colonials, including a humanitarian physician, a "by the book" governor and a sadistic jailer, as well as the forces of natural justice in the form of a devastating hurricane. Written by the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty"
gary > Sounds like John Ford's The Hurrican (Uragan means Hurrican in Czech). > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurricane_%281937_film%29 > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Brewer, Michael < > brew...@u.library.arizona.edu> wrote: > >> Can anyone help? >> mb >> >> Michael Brewer >> Team Leader for Instructional Services >> University of Arizona Libraries >> brew...@u.library.arizona.edu >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alexander Prokhorov [mailto:axp...@wm.edu] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:08 PM >> To: slavci...@lists.wm.edu >> Subject: [slavcin-l] Help in identifying a film >> >> >> I am working with a collection of labor camp correspondence (the letter >> in >> question dates to 1944) in which an inmate reports seeing an American >> film >> titled "Uragan" in the Soviet labor camp in which he is being held. He >> says >> that the plot of the film centers on a prisoner who escapes from hard >> labor >> and returns to the wife he has not seen in 8 years. During their >> separation, the wife has had a child. >> >> I have poked around some online, but I cannot seem to find anything from >> the >> right period that looks like a likely match. Any suggestions for how >> best to >> proceed would be very welcome. If at all possible, I would like to >> identify >> the film in question. The letters mention screenings of other American >> films >> in the camp, including some made as late as 1941. Thanks in advance >> for >> any >> advice or help you can provide. Best wishes, Emily >> >> Dr. Emily Johnson >> Associate Professor >> Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics University of >> Oklahoma >> 780 Van Vleet Oval, Room 206 >> Norman, OK 73019 >> phone: (405) 325-1486 >> fax: (405) 325-0103 >> emilydjohn...@ou.edu >> >> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >> issues >> relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >> control, >> preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries >> and >> related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an >> effective >> working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication >> between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and >> distributors. >> > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
