The Last Jew from Drohobych is the story of Alfred Schreyer, the only surviving pre-WWII Jewish resident in this Western Ukraine town. In the 1930s, he was a student of Bruno Schulz. During the Nazi occupation he survived forced labor and concentration camps. After the war he became a singer and violinist in a local Cinema Lobby Orchestra. Today, Alfred Schreyer is a living history.Read More »
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A film that uses animation as a tool to spastify the various stages of cinema development. It is a play with form and juggling of genres, with Zbigniew Rybczynski collaborating. The theme of this work can be considered the transience and inevitability of fate, which is symbolized by a painting hung on the wall showing hunters in a boat. Generations of a certain family meet in the living room, up to the then present day, the mid-1970s.Read More »
Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1991 film, set in Warsaw in 1939, stars Crispin Glover as well as Iain Glen who as a 30-year-old suddenly starts being treated by those around him–his former professor, a nymphet, a female cousin–as if he had regressed back to childhood. Closer to a curiosity than to a success–the English dialogue and the period Polish setting make for an odd mesh at times–but a curiosity by Skolimowski certainly isn’t like anyone else’s.Read More »
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“The film is set in Lodz, under Prussian rule, and abounds in strong topical moments against the background of life in the occupied city.” Other sources reported that the film’s plot was “set against the background of the occupation and destruction of Kalisz by the Germans in 1914. “.Read More »
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Gendarme Hoppe is packing to leave for a long-awaited vacation in Germany. Before he can leave the post, however, a Jewish boy shows up. Hoppe must make a decision about the child’s life.Read More »
Mr. Kleks visits at night, a boy who is a patient at the hospital. He decides to tell him a story, starting with the fact that Great Elektronik together with your robots conquered the island of inventors.Read More »
Adaptation of Tolstoi’s “The Devil”, featuring Krystyna Janda.
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This drama is an expressive portrayal of sexual obsession, which eventually breaks down the personality of a wise and hard-working man and leads to tragedy. The film is based on Leo Tolstoy’s short story “The Devil”. The plot is set in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska), just before the outbreak of World War I. The protagonist is a man who is troubled by his own feelings. The protagonist is a man torn by passions, full of energy and plans for the future. He wants to use the knowledge he gained during his studies in Switzerland for economic purposes. He is a patriot who promotes poetry, infecting others with patriotic feelings. Paweł is a model of a positivist. His meeting with Dorota triggers an avalanche of passion, shattering reason and logic and leading to a tragic finale.Read More »
A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.Read More »
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Based on a true story, this film focuses on three Polish labourers of vastly different social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Unlike many of their recalcitrant contemporaries, the three men overcome their differences and work together. Eventually they create a textile factory founded upon the edicts of equality, trust, and respect.Read More »