KINOTEKA »
The Last Stage | Ostatni etap (1948) Kinoteka Film Festival 2017
Director: Wanda Jakubowska | Scr: Wanda Jakubowska, Gerda Schneider | Cast: Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Górecka, Barbara Drapinska, Aleksandra Śląska | Drama / Poland / 110 minutes Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998) and her scriptwriter Gerda Schneider were themselves both
Read More »
Ashes and Diamonds | Popiol i Diament (1958) | Kinoteka 2017
Dir: Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Wartime Drama | 103MIN ASHES AND DIAMONDS is undoubtedly a film noir. Not only has Wajda borrowed the sinister shadows and the black and white aesthetic from the
Read More »
Happiness of the World | Szczescie Swiata (2016) | Kinoteka Film Festival 2017
Dir.: Michal Rosa | Cast: Karolina Gruszka, Dariusz Chojnacki, Agata Kulesza, Dorothea Segda, Andrzej Konopka, Krzysztof Stroinski | Poland 2016, 98 min Best known for his Karlovy Vary winner Silence, Michal Rosa’s latest drama is
Read More »
Something Better to Come | Kinoteka Film Festival 2017
Dir.: Hanna Polak | Documentary | Denmark/Poland/Japan/Netherlands/USA 2014 | 98 min. Filmed over 14 years, Hanna Polak’s portrait of survival in Europe’s largest junkyard, the Svalka, just 13 miles away from the Kremlin, is
Read More »
Playground |Plac zbaw (2016) | Kinoteka 2017
Dir: Bartosz M. Kowalski | Screenwriters: Bartosz M. Kowalski, Stanislaw Warwas Cast: Michalina Swistun, Nicolas Przygoda, Przemek Balinski, Patryk Swiderski, Pawel Brandys, Anita Jancia-Prokopowicz, Pawel Karolak, Malgorzata Olczyk 88min | Thriller | Poland From a
Read More »
Afterimage | Powidoki (2016) | Kinoteka Polish Film Festival
Dir.: Andrzej Wajda | Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Zofia Wichlacz, Bronislawa Zamachowska, Aleksandra Justa | Poland | 98 min. Andrzej Wajda’s final film, an unsentimental bio-pic covering the last years of the avant-garde painter Wladyslaw
Read More »
The Red Spider|Czerwony Pajak (2015) | Kinoteka 2017 | 17 March – 5 April
Dir/cine. Marcin Koszalka | Thriller | Poland | Czech Republic | Slovak Republic | 2015 | 90 min. With a quiver of macabre shorts and documentaries under his belt, Krakow-born filmmaker Marcin Koszalka is
Read More »
The Eccentrics: The Sunny Side of the Street (2015) | Kinoteka 2017
Dir: Janusz Majewski | Musical Drama | Poland | 112min Janusz Majewski’s stylish musical drama sees a former soldier and jazz fan return to Poland after the Second World War where he forms a
Read More »
Innocent Sorcerers | Niewinni Czarodzie (1960) | Kinoteka 2017
Dir: Andrzej Wajda | Drama | Poland | 87min In early 1960s Warsaw, Bazyl (Tadeusz Lomnicki) is a young doctor who plays in a jazz band. He is a dreamer, not really unhappy, but
Read More »
Man of Marble (1976-7) | Kinoteka 2017
Dir.: Andrzej Wajda Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Jacek Lomnicki Poland 1977, 165 min. Wajda had to wait 15 years between finishing the script with Aleksander Scibor-Rylski and the film’s production in 1976/77. Despite
Read More »
