Movies that Matter is organising a screening of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 'The President' on 10 January with special guest -writer and journalist- Alexander Münninghoff (The Stamholder).
In 'The President', a deposed dictator in an eastern European country is confronted with his actions after he has to hide out with his grandson. In Mohsen Makhmalbaf's satire, the roles are briefly reversed and with that, the far-reaching consequences of a dictatorship also become clear. The film has been praised several times in the press and opened the Venice Film Festival in 2014. The film did not have a release in Dutch cinema but can now be admired again thanks to Movies that Matter.
Alexander Münninghoff will discuss coups, dictatorships and the differences between fact and fiction in the former Soviet Union with artist Frits Dijcks (Topp & Dubio) on 10 January after the film. In addition, it will also discuss the striking similarities between the film and Münninghoff's own family chronicle 'The Pedigree', in which the writer, as grandson of one of Latvia's richest men and a Russian countess, sees all the great 20th-century events of Europe pass by.
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