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Monday Night Movie

John Flores                                                                  

For Immediate Release

Director                                                                     

March 10, 2009

On Monday, March 23, 2009, the Dover Free Library will present the documentary film The Rape of Europa on the large screen in the Community Room.  Showtime:  6:30 P.M.  Runtime:  117.  This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, call 802-348-7488.

Plot Summary:

THE RAPE OF EUROPA is a feature documentary that takes the audience on an epic journey through seven countries and into a violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But heroic young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a miraculous campaign that would rescue and return the millions of art works displaced by the war. Joan Allen narrates this chronicle about the battle over the very survival of centuries of western culture.