Screening Time: Sunday, May 4, 4:00 PM, Charles
Theatre 3
Director: Jeff Krulik
Cast: Richard Marowitz
Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 42 minutes
Format: Beta SP
 In
Hitler’s Hat, we learn about a unit of soldiers
that entered and searched Adolph Hitler’s abandoned Munich
apartment on April 30th, 1945. Jewish-American G.I., and self-appointed
wiseacre of his unit Richard Marowitz, stormed into Hitler’s
bedroom looking for anything he could bring back to headquarters.
All he found was a black top hat. Enraged over the atrocities
he had a witnessed during the war, Marowitz crushed the hat, pretending
Hitler’s head was still inside. That same day, Hitler committed
suicide. For the next 50 years, Marowitz kept the ultimate war
souvenir in a brown paper bag before going public with his story
and loaning the hat to the American Museum of Jewish Military
History in 1996. Daring and innovative, the documentary presents
a rare mix of humor and history in an original take on World War
II. The NY Times calls it a “witty and touching documentary”;
The NY Daily News says it’s “an intelligent offbeat
portrait”; and the Village Voice Film Critics Poll says
it’s “one of the best undistributed films of 2002”.
Presented By: Jeff Krulik
Showing with Quiet Revolutionary:
The Life of Judge Harold Greene
Director: Nathan Ackerman and Julian Mulvey
Cast: Burke Marshall, Sen. John Warner, Rev.
Walter Fauntroy, Nicholas Katzenbach, Howard Glickstein, Jack
Greenberg
Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 49 minutes
Format: DVD
Judge Harold Greene, a refugee from Nazi Germany, made a name
for himself for his role in the break-up of the largest monopoly
in the world, but his proudest moments were the behind the scenes
work he did in the civil rights struggle, that have gone mostly
unnoticed by history. Historical footage and interviews with colleagues
tell this story of a remarkable man.
--Skizz Cyzyk
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