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Film Screening: 'Professor Dowell's Testament' (1984)

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Film Screening Humanities

Thu, Oct 23, 2025

7 PM – 9 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 301

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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The second Belyaev adaptation of the "Imagine Otherwise" film series, "Professor Dowell’s Testament" gives a perestroika-update to a 1925 novel. Professor Dowell, having created a solution that is capable of reanimating body parts, asks his assistant Dr. Korn to preserve his head after death. The head remains capable of speech and cognition, and converses with Korn while an investigation takes place surrounding Dowell’s mysterious death. "Professor Dowell’s Testament" offers a stark reflection on the scientific experimentation of a Soviet Union coming to its end.

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Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 301

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | View More Events
Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (OWNER)