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ANDRZEJ WAJDA: THREE WAR FILMS
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A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes and Diamonds--three groundbreaking films that ushered in the "Polish School" movement and solidified the importance of their creator.
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BROKEN SILENCE
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Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation present this set of five harrowing documentaries from world-renowned directors that capture testimonies and remembrances from Holocaust survivors from across the globe. Some Who Lived (Luis Puenzo) highlights Argentine and Uruguayan survivors' testimonies; Hell on Earth (Vojtech Jasny) looks at the Theresienstadt, the Czech ghetto set up by the Nazis to show the world how the Jews were treated; Eyes of the Holocaust (Janos Szasz) chronicles the testimonies of Hungarian survivors who were children during the Holocaust; I Remember (Andrzej Wajda) looks at four survivors who were either helped or betrayed by their Polish neighbors; and Children from the Abyss (Pavel Chukhraj) documents the experiences of Russian survivors. In Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Russian with English subtitles. Luis Puenzo/Vojtech Jasny/Janos Szasz/Andrzej Wajda/Pavel Chukhraj---Argentina/Czech Republic/Hungary/Poland/Russia---2003---283 mins.
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DANTON (CRITERION)
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Gerard Depardieu stars as one of the architects of the French Revolution in this literate and captivating feature that follows Danton's fate during the Reign of Terror. "Brilliant filmmaking--a controlled tumult of painterly compositions and sensational performances, one of the most gripping revolutionary thrillers I've ever seen," (Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice). Depardieu was named Best Actor by the National Society of Film Critics and the film was BAFTA's choice for Best Foreign Language Film. In Andrzej Wajda---France---1983---136 mins.
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Director Andrzej Wajda (Maids of Wilko) pays tribute to his late friend and collaborator, Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski, in this behind-the-scenes look at a film set disrupted by the sudden death of their leading man, who died trying to jump onto a moving train - the same manner in which Cybulski died. Not letting grief derail their work, the cast and crew deal with the loss while completing the film without their star. In Polish with English Andrzej Wajda---Poland---1968---94 mins.
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INNOCENT SORCERERS
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A neglected masterpiece by Andrzej Wajda, reflective of the best of 1960s Polish cinema. Wry and cynical in tone, the work is important for being "the first film in Eastern Europe to chronicle the disillusionment of the younger generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). A bachelor doctor, who is also a jazz musician, can't quite commit himself to his superficial girlfriend. He and his aimless friends find any kind of human contact or emotional commitment a troubling and ultimately uninviting prospect. With Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, and a young Roman Polanski. In Polish with English subtitles. Andrzej Wajda---Poland---1960---86 mins.
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KATYN
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Andrzej Wajda directs this Polish war drama that was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.
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LANDSCAPE AFTER BATTLE
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Polish director Andrzej Wajda tells a beautiful and fatalistic story of love found in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Based on the writings of Tadeusz Borowski, an Auschwitz survivor who committed suicide at the age of 29, the film follows two concentration camp survivors who have an affair while waiting repatriation after WWII. In Polish with English subtitles. Andrzej Wajda---Poland---1979---101 mins.
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LOTNA
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Andrzej Wajda, the son of a Polish cavalry officer killed in the Second World War by Germans, made this film as a tribute to the heroic horsemen who faced off against German tanks. It follows the trajectory of an off-white horse which passes among various military officials until it breaks a leg and is shot. In Polish with English subtitles. Andrzej Wajda---Poland---1959---89 mins.
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MAN OF IRON (WAJDA)
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Made in the center of political events surrounding it, Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron is a powerful sequel to Man of Marble. The film merges documentary footage of the Solidarity strike into a fictionalized drama of a disillusioned radio producer (Marian Opania) who is ordered to Gdansk to undermine the reputation of one of the leaders of the worker revolt. "An urgent, nervy narrative conveys all the exhilaration and bewilderment of finding oneself on the very crestline of crucial historical change" (Time Out). With Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Irena Byrska and Wieslaw Kosmalska. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1981 Cannes Film festival. In Polish with English subtitles.
Andrzej Wajda---Poland---1981---140 mins.
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MAN OF MARBLE
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Thirteen years in the making, Wajda's film caused packed houses to rise and sing the Polish national anthem when it finally premiered in Poland in 1977. Denied entrance at Cannes by Polish authorities, it played nonetheless at a commercial theatre there and won the International Critics' Prize. Hailed as "a milestone in Polish cinema" by Variety, Man of Marble is the story of a young filmmaker trying to reconstruct a truthful picture of the Stalinist past, a past obscured by 20 years of shifting propaganda. Polish with English Andrzej Wajda---Poland---1977---160 mins.
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PAN TADEUSZ
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At the age of 73, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda directed this lavish period drama, beautifully captured by cinematographer Pawel Edelman (Ray).
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PROMISED LAND ( WAJDA )
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Based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winner Wladyslav Reymont, Andrzej Wajda's epic film examines the relationships among three industrialists who own a textile factory in Lodz at the turn of the century. The film is an epic about complex class structures; each man represents a different ethnic group: a Pole (Daniel Olbrychski), a German (Andrzej Seweryn) and a Jew (Wojciech Pszoniak). The drama builds to a climax when the overworked, underpaid workers threaten to revolt. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. In Polish with English subtitles. Andrzej Wajda---Poland---1974---178 mins.
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SAMSON (WAJDA)
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Andrzej Wajda's profound psychological study of a man who accidentally kills a schoolmate in a brawl and is imprisoned. He is released with the onset of World War II, only to be locked up once more, but in the Warsaw Ghetto. Again he escapes and finds himself trapped, this time in a world of non-Jews where the threat of capture is ever-present. This powerful film makes extraordinary use of naturalistic symbols. In Polish with English subtitles. Andrzej Wajda---Poland---1961---119 mins.
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SIBERIAN LADY MACBETH
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Andrzej Wajda shot this extraordinary film in Yugoslavia, during a period of self-imposed political exile. Fury Is a Woman ranks with Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood as one of the most successful screen translations of Shakespeare ever made. "Not only has the director succeeded in catching the spirit of the time and the place; he has also managed to create the sense of timelessness inherent to the tragedy" (Richard Roud, Sight & Sound). With Olivera Markovic and Ljuba Tadic. In Serbo-Croation with Andrzej Wajda---Yugoslavia---1961---93 mins.
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WAJDA: MAN OF CINEMA - AN EXCLUSIVE FACETS 2-PACK
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From Andrzej Wajda comes this pair of films made during the Communist era that carefully chronicles two distinct moments in his country's history.
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YOUNG GIRLS OF WILKO
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Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Jaroslav Iwaszkiewicz's memoirs is set in the late 1920's. Viktor Ruben (Daniel Olbrychski), a World War I veteran and operator of a small factory, reexamines his life following the death of a friend. Returning to his aunt and uncle's home, he is drawn into a mysterious web of sexual and romantic longing with five women from his past. "Wajda...has made an exquisite period piece which lays bare the futility of attempting to resurrect the past" (The Faber Companion to Foreign Films). With Anna Seniuk, Maja Komarowska, Krystyna Zachwatowicz and Christine Pascal. French and Polish with English subtitles. Andrzej Wajda---Poland/France---1979---118 mins.
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ZEMSTA (THE REVENGE)
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Roman Polanski stars in this light comedy from legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda (Birch Wood), based on the stage play by Aleksandr Fredo. Zemsta tells the story of two feuding 17th century aristocratic familie s whose homes share a common courtyard. On top of the bickering, life becomes even more complicated when two opposing family members fall in love. In Polish with English subtitles. Andrzej Wajda---Poland---2002---100 mins.
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