Ingrid Bergman: A Celebration, librarian Doug Swiszcz's film lecture series, continues on Wednesday afternoons at 1:00 PM at the Barrington Public Library. Mr. Swiszcz offers commentary before each week's screening. The series is free and open to all.
On March 26th, Anastasia (1956) will be screened. This movie taps into one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th century: whether the young daughter of Russian czar Nicholas II survived the massacre that befell the rest of her family, the Romanovs, at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1918. In this film, set in 1928 Paris, an unscrupulous White Russian (Yul Brynner) tries to convince everyone that a young amnesiac woman (Bergman)-who spoke of being the young empress while she was in a mental asylum-is indeed the heir to the Romanov fortune. Is she or isn't she? A meeting with the Dowager Empress (Helen Hayes), the grandmother in the royal family, should prove the final test. (Color; 105 min.)
The series concludes on April 2nd with a showing of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
Barrington Public Library is located at 281 County Rd., Barrington. Visit on the web at www.barringtonlibrary.org or call 401-247-1920 or find on Facebook.
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