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Rough-Cut Showing of the Documentary "Cojut" and Filmmaker Talk
Venue: Torgersen Hall (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech present a Rough-Cut Showing of the Documentary "Cojut" and Filmmaker Talk on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at Torgersen Hall Room 3100 on the campus of Virginia Tech.

The French program at Virginia Tech is organizing a rough-cut screening of the French documentary "Cojot" and the producer Boaz Dvir will be in attendance. This is a unique opportunity to view a pre-release screening. The producers are seeking input on how to improve the film which is in its final stages.

"Cojot" follows the life of the Frenchman Michel Cojot-Goldberg, a Nazi hunter, Entebbe hostage, and ultimately, a Klaus Barbie trial witness. The film shows how Cojot was marked by the Occupation during the Second World War and the Holocaust. Cojot blamed the infamous German SS officer Klaus Barbie for the murder of his father at Auschwitz.

Barbie was known as the Butcher of Lyon and was responsible for the arrest and death of the head of the French Resistance, Jean Moulin. Cojot tracked Barbie down in Bolivia after the war but was unable to bring himself to assassinate Barbie when he had the opportunity. The stigma of these events marked him until fate interceded.

In 1976, he was a hostage on the Air France flight from Israel to Paris that was hijacked to the Entebbe airport in Uganda. Cojot functioned as a self-appointed intermediary between the terrorists and the hostages. His efforts led to numerous hostages being freed including himself. The information he provided to Israeli intelligence services upon his release allowed Israel to conduct one of the most stunning rescue operations ever of the remaining hostages. In the 1980s, when Klaus Barbie was finally extradited to France for trial, Cojot was one of the witnesses against him and provided evidence of Barbie’s role in the rounding up of Jews near Lyon during the war.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

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