The Codes

Szyfry, feature film, 1966

DIRECTED BY: Wojciech Jerzy Has


CAST:
Jan Kreczmar,
Zbigniew Cybulski,
Ignacy Gogolewski

SCRIPT:
Andrzej Kijowski

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Mieczyslaw Jahoda

Synopsis:
After World War II, an officer of the Polish army returns from London to Poland and finds out that his wife is ill. She never recovered from the loss of their twelve-year-old son in the war. Searching for his son, the father experiences fickle and encoded nature of the truth… The film visualizes the destinies of war survivors, and in addition, visualizes their memories and psychological deformations with the elements of surrealism…

b/w, 80 min