Cycle
From 27.03. To 08.04.2015.
Retrospective of Daniel Olbrychski
Films in cycle
The Birch Wood
(Brzezina, 1970.)
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
PHOTOGRAPHY: Zygmunt Samosiuk
Synopsis:
Young Boleslaw comes to a farm of his depressive and bitter older brother Stanislaw who never recovered after his wife passed away. Even though Boleslaw has tuberculosis, he is full of energy and will to live so he tries to seize every moment of his life. He enjoys playing the piano, brings joy to the farm and flirts with the young Katarzyna who works there. She is promised to Stanislaw’s assistant on the farm but Boleslaw suspects that he had an affair with his brother’s wife.
digital, color, 99 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 27.03.2015 AT 19:00
Rosa Luxemburg
(1986.)
Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta
PHOTOGRAPHY: Franz Rath
Synopsis:
This is a historical biopic about the Polish-German political activist and leftist-pacifist revolutionary legend, Rosa Luxemburg, who was murdered in 1919 upon the German government’s order. The film follows her as a grown woman from the beginning of her political fight when she encouraged the worldwide revolution of the proletariat until her premature death after the WW I. She had her biggest supporter, both privately and professionally, in her partner Leo Jogiches, who later became her traitor...
digital, color, 123 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 28.03.2015 AT 19:00
Landscape After the Battle
(Krajobraz po bitwie, 1970.)
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
PHOTOGRAPHY: Zygmunt Samosiuk
Synopsis:
Drama based on stories by the Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski who survived Holocaust. The protagonist is the young poet Tadeusz, one of many prisoners form a Nazi concentration camp who were just liberated by American troupes. Tadeusz does not cope well with his newly acquired freedom and while living in an American transition camp he devotes all his time to reading books. There he meets a young Jewish woman, Nina, who invites him to move to the West with her.
digital, color, 109 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 30.03.2015 AT 19:00
Deluge
(1974.)
Directed by: Jerzy Hoffman
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jerzy Wójcik
Synopsis:
This was one of the most popular films in Poland. It is a historical drama about the invasion of the protestant Sweden on the Catholic Poland during the 17th century. Young officer Andrzej Kmicic at first supports the powerful family Radziwill that collaborated with the usurper. However, his fiancée Olenka Billewiczówna and other noble families begin to regard him as a traitor. Realizing his mistake, Andrzej will give his best to correct his actions. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the...
digital, color, 180 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 31.03.2015 AT 19:00
Salt
(2010.)
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Elswit
Synopsis:
Evelyn Salt is an American who gets captured and tortured in North Korea under the suspicion that she is a spy. Finally, CIA saves her but only thanks to the public pressure of her boyfriend Mike. When she finally admits to Mike that she really is a spy, he proposes to her. Two years later, Evelyn is happily married and a valued CIA agent. Soon a Russian defector Orlov arrives to the agency and during an interrogation accuses Evelyn of being a Russian spy whose mission is to murder the Russian p...
35 mm, color, 100 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 03.04.2015 AT 19:00
Wednesday 01.04.2015 AT 19:00
The Barber of Siberia
(Sibirskiy tsiryulnik, 1998.)
Directed by: Nikita Mikhalkov
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pavel Lebeshev
Synopsis:
Jane writes a letter to her son who is currently in a military camp and reveals to him the truth about events that took place twenty years ago. Together with the engineer and entrepreneur Douglas McCracken she travelled to Russia to help him secure the patent called the Barber of Siberia. One of her tasks is to charm the Russian military generals who might help them. General Radlov is enchanted with Jane and proposes to her. However, Jane falls in love with the young cadet Tolstoy.