Filmi i të enjtës – Donnerstagfilms – Thursday Film – Le Film du Jeudi
Screening on the 12th of May 2011 – 7 p.m. – free entrance
‘Mr. Smith goes to Washington‘
by Frank Capra
125 min – 1939 – USA – Drama
(english subtitles)
with Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold…
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state’s senior senator–presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys’ camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Story. In 1989, the Library of Congress added the movie to the United States National Film Registry, for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”.
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