Mon, Feb. 22 @ 4:30PM

BLUES MARCH - SOLDIER JON
HENDRICKS

In Europe during World War II, then 22-year-old Jon Hendricks, along with 900,000 other black GIs, was fighting on two fronts: against the Nazis and against racial discrimination in the US Army as well as in the United States. For Hendricks, who is now 87, it finally turned out to be a triumphant double victory although he never fired a shot. This documentary tells the adventurous and moving story of Jon Hendricks, later a world-renowned jazz musician, who, because of discrimination and harassment, deserted the army as did so many African-Americans. By Malte Rauch, USA/Germany, 2009, 78min, documentary in English.