“Khrustalyov, My Car!”
In 1953, dying Soviet dictator Josef Stalin orchestrated one final offense against his people, the infamous “Doctor’s Plot” — the imprisonment and murder of a group of Moscow doctors, many of whom were Jewish. Alexei Guerman’s 1998 film “Khrustalyov, My Car!” follows a military doctor during this time through the frenzy and fear of the purge. U.C. Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive will screen the film on Aug. 18.
6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley. $5.50-$9.50. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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“Srugim.” Screening of the last four episodes of the TV show that has been called the Israeli version of “Friends.” At Congregation B’nai Tikvah, 25 Hillcroft Way, Walnut Creek. 6:15 p.m. $10. www.tikvah.org.