_UNDERSCORE: Andrzej Wajda - Speaking (in) Polish
Andrzej Wajda built his cinema on a steadfast commitment to Poland, choosing to “speak in Polish” while reaching audiences far beyond it. In works such as KANAL and ASHES AND DIAMONDS, he transformed national trauma into universal stories of memory and moral struggle.
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EVERYTHING FOR SALE
Wszystko na sprzedaz
94 min. featureAn actor is missing. The film crew is not able to start without him. The actor's wife and the director's wife are looking for him. Finally, they hear the news that the actor died tragically while jumping out of a moving train.
Written & Directed by: Andrzej...
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MAIDS OF WILKO
Panny z Wilka
116 min. featureAfter the death of his friend, a man decides to go to the countryside and visit the place he used to be in his youth - the houses of his uncle and the neighboring ladies (the titular Panny z Wilka). He finds them all together. Walks, memories, shared meals, crossin...
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MAN OF IRON
Człowiek z żelaza
147 min. featureA radio journalist has to prepare a report compromising an activist of the strike committee named Tomczyk in the Gdańsk Shipyard. He manages to get to the shipyard area, which is occupied by the workers. The hectic summer of 1980 continues. The journalist meets...
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MAN OF MARBLE
Człowiek z marmuru
153 min. featureAgnieszka is making a diploma film about Birkut, a work leader from the 1950s. She reaches out to witnesses and archival documents. Birkut's colleagues talk about the years of enthusiastic reconstruction works as well as the rebellion of the worker in the name...
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PROMISED LAND
Ziemia obiecana
179 min. featureA young engineer employed in a large factory dreams of starting his own. Together with two friends, the owner of a weaving mill and a middleman, he decides to take advantage of a confidential piece of information about the planned increase in cotton prices. He wa...