The Dryden will screen Geschichtsunterricht (History Lessons, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Italy/West Germany 1972, DCP, German w/subtitles).

Straub-Huillet's History Lessons is based on Bertolt Brecht's unfinished experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar. A young man drives around through the streets of Rome in the early 1970s and interviews different characters whose lives were irretrievably changed by Julius Caesar's affairs. He talks to a banker, a poet, a lawyer, and a peasant former soldier. Their fractured views of a man considered both a noble statesman and tyrannical dictator testify to the fragile and elusive nature of what we think is history set in stone, and offer illuminating insights on the political and economic affairs of both past and present.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Oct-3]