"Erotikon," 1920 Swedish comedy to be screened on April 27, 2012

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Still from Swedish comedy "Erotikon" (1920)

ALBANY, NY (04/03/2012)(readMedia)-- "Erotikon" (Sweden, 1920, 97 minutes, b/w, silent with live piano accompaniment by Mike Schiffer, directed by Mauritz Stiller) will be shown on Friday, April 27, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.

In this Swedish comedy (cited as an important inspiration by film director Ernst Lubitsch), an entomologist who specializes in the sex life of bugs becomes infatuated with his own niece. Meanwhile, his wife embarks on extramarital affairs with a dashing aviator and a brooding sculptor. Dave Kehr of the New York Times called it, "sublime... one of the screen's first sophisticated sex comedies."

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.

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