Documentary "The Age of Czeslaw Milosz"
A Noble prize winner in 1980, Milosz taught at Berkeley in the 60's and lived not far from where I live, on Grizzley Peak and Centennial where the journalist Mark Danner, CAl faculty, now lives...Milosz was very lonely while living at Berkeley, and mailed his poems to himself, sometimes...a survivor of the Russian revolution and both world wars, he was isolated from both the American literary scene and the literary life in Poland, from which he defected in 1951. His books were subsequently banned. The film by Juoazas Javaitis, Lithuanian director euologizes Milosz's life, childhood and time in Poland...he, also having had a life in Vilnius, Lithuania. Part of the "Auteur Author" film series presented as part of the second East Bay Berkeley Book Festival, june 2 and 3. Milosz died at age 93 in Cracow, to which he returned, as its compass suited him. Anthony Milosz, his son introduced the film, and asserted that his father was also American, as well as Polish. Ro...