Resident filmmaker presents screening, discussion at UConn Stamford campus

From the Stamford Advocate about one of our Film School students:

The University of Connecticut in Stamford will hold a screening and discussion of a Friedrich Durrenmatt film adaptation next week.

Resident filmmaker Michael P. O'Toole, a recent UConn graduate and student at the New York Film Academy, will present his first mini-feature, "The Breakdown," based on Durrenmatt's short story "Traps."

The story takes place on a summer day in 1964, when a traveling salesman's car breaks down. The salesman comes across a country house, explains his situation to an old man working in the garden and asks to use the telephone. The salesman is obliged to stay for dinner and the old man, a retired judge, invites two friends over to join them. The three men suggest a parlor game at dinner, a friendly mock trial where the salesman is put in the role of the defendant.

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