Every last week of each month, the Iluzjon cinema will held screenings of classic Polish films with English subtitles. The films will be presented in the re-mastered version and, before each screening, an expert on the Polish cinema, Michał Chaciński, will introduce the ins and outs of the Polish cinema's history.
If you want to know more about the secrets of the Polish cinema - in English - you're welcome to join us in Mała Czarna room, on 23rd June 2015 r.; 8.00 pm.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
23rd June 2015 r.; 8.00 pm.
"Pigs" (Psy) dir. Władysław Pasikowski, Poland 1992 104’
"Pigs" was one of the greatest surprises of 1993. The movie was controversial and it caused a major stir – it was showered with awards at the Gdynia Film Festival (including the Golden Duck) and at the same accused by some of the film critics of excessive brutality, nihilism, and an attack against the established values. It was admired by the young audience, people tired of martyrology and phoney patriotism, who found the ex-special communist services agent Franz Maurer, played by Bogusław Linda, their new hero, a strong man for hard times.
"Pigs" is an example of post-communist cinema of moral concern. The movie combines elements of American police detective movie with Polish reality (verification committees, burning secret police files, the growing presence of the Roman Catholic Church) in such a way as to become a mirror reflecting the problems of the early stages of Polish political transformation. The story of ex-state secret service agents trying to fit in the reality of the post-1989 Poland seems today one of the most important movies of the 1990s, the best film testimony to the period of transition, reflecting the "shock of freedom" and lack of stability.
All films are screened in the re-mastered version.
Each screening will be preceded by a lecture in English by Michał Chaciński.
Tickets (kino Iluzjon):
Discount – PLN 15
Standard – PLN 17
Reservation:
Kino Iluzjon; 50a Narbutta Street; 02-536 Warsaw
Phone: +48 22 462 72 60; iluzjon.rezerwacje@fn.org.pl
ORGANIZERS:
Filmoteka Narodowa (The National Film Archive)
Cyfrowe Repozytorium Filmowe
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