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Open Campus Lawn
Summer term 2021
Burn After Reading
Moderated by Alex Thelen

Burn After Reading

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | USA, United Kingdom, France 2008 | 96 min | 35mm | Original Version with german Subtitles | with George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt

Linda and Chad, two not-so-clever employees of a Washington gym, one day get their hands on a mysterious CD-ROM. It turns out that it belongs to former CIA employee Osborne Cox and contains supposedly explosive information about the US secret service.

Loan of the film print with kind support of HfG Karlsruhe.

Supporting Film: Ballot Box Bunny

Director: Friz Freleng | USA 1951 | 8 min | 16mm | Original Version | with Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny is underneath the podium drinking carrot juice when Sam makes a pledge to make good on his previous promise "to rid this country of every last rabbit" if elected. Bugs is horrified and then decides he needs to fight Sam by running against him for mayor.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Metropolis Archiv - Kinemathek Hamburg.
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