THE RAPE OF EUROPA
USA, 2006 English, 117 min., Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen

In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But young art professionals as well as ordinary heroes, from truck drivers to department store clerks, fought back with an extraordinary effort to safeguard, rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and stolen treasures.

Joan Allen narrates this breathtaking chronicle about the battle over the very survival of centuries of western culture.

Thursday, Jan. 17, 7:00 p.m., Manship Theatre Shaw Center
Speaker: Prof. Darius Speith, LSU School of Art

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