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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 21:59:06 GMT 1
Seksmisja, Sexmission, a famous Polish comedy, 1983. A cult Polish production The two main characters, Maks and Albert, played by Jerzy Stuhr and Olgierd Łukasiewicz, respectively, submit themselves to the first human hibernation experiment. Instead of being awakened after a few years, they wake up in the 21st century, in a post-nuclear world, where all humans have retreated to underground living facilities, and, what's most important, where men had died out as a result of subjection to a specific kind of radiation. The tabboo word used accidentally by one of the men starts the lift secured by a password.. What is the word? It is F...k! The trial of two men by a bunch of obsessed women. "Einstein was a woman!!!! Copernicus was a woman!!!" That`s how males used to torment women in the past. The League of Women rulez!!! Two men are going to undergo an operation changing them into women. They don`t give up: "Long live the men!!!" One man recognizes his daughter from the past, now a mature woman. She is very poignant about her father. She will perform the operation. "Where do you know my name from, you cannibal??!!"
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 21:59:49 GMT 1
Rejs, Cruise, whose director was recently disclosed as a communist agent. Fragments of the film, the quiz: The parody of Rejs with soundtrack from another film, Psy.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:00:15 GMT 1
Sami Swoi, late 60s, was rated as the best Polish comedy ever. It is a story about the feud of two families who left the Eastern lands after WW2 and started a new life in ex-German town in western Poland. The feud they had had before the war is still continued in the new place. The reunion and burying the hatchet.... (the sound has been slightly changed) ..but it didn`t last too long Sami swoi had two sequels in 70s. Grandpa is intent on guarding the chastity of his granddaughter who is going the get married next day but her fiance is so hot... The final dialogue: Grandpa: It`s getting so hot. Fiance: The storm is coming. Granda: It`d better not come today, but tomorrow. A collection of mistakes in the film wesly.republika.pl/wpadki.html
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:00:37 GMT 1
A sequel, two farmers organize a boar hunt for a party boss from Warsaw, a hunting maniac. To make sure the hunter leaves their village satisfied, they get a pig, paint it black, carry to the forest to pretend a wild boar and let it go there, attached to a string by its leg. The hunter is taken in..... for a while, and the farmers turn into game. www.youtube.com/profile?user=keepsmiling007The wedding day. See how grandpa reacts when he learns that the atheist groom and bride don`t want to have a church wedding. ""And you what? Goie home! The wedding shall not be!"" The fictional characters of Kargul and Pawlak became so known that people started erecting monuments to honour them....
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:01:07 GMT 1
A film with Polish ingredients.... The Battle of Britain, Polish pilots ignore the orders to retreat to the base and pounce on the enemy... REPEAT, PLEASE! and then DOSTAŁ, SUKINSYN! The son of the pregnant dog is down! followed by STOP THAT POLISH CHATTER!!!! SILENCE IN POLISH!!!! Lovely lines. hahahahahaha
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:01:31 GMT 1
MiŚ (Teddy Bear) Alcoholics used to drink incredible booze in the past. A man goes to the newsagent`s and orders one shot of cologne: Besides, the newsagent sells illegal meat because the butchers were empty at the time. From a comedy MiŚ (Teddy Bear) 1980 by Stanisław Bareja.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:01:57 GMT 1
How I started the WW2 is a war comedy made in 1969. Franek Dolas is a Polish soldier harrassed by bad luck. He thinks he started the war: The trailer of the serial, with a beautiful soundtrack that has always fascinated me. Franek Dolas tries to escape from the German camp for Polish POWs for the first time His second attempt: In this scene a run-away Polish POW pretends he is a peasant and reveals his fake surname which is extremely difficult for a German officer. Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz is the name. You won`t pronounce properly it if you aren`t Polish. See the eager beaver - the Polish soldier in the phlegmatic British camp. The British drink tea during the war - incredible! hahahahaha Franek gets drunk with friendly Serbs A fight in a port inn www.1939.pl/film/jak_rozpetalem.jpg
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:03:19 GMT 1
Popiół i Diament, Ash and Diamond, by Andrzej Wajda, with an unforgettable scene of lighting glasses with spirit to honour the fallen comrades. Most friends died, and those who managed to survive will never be normal again. The war inflicted too deep wounds, especially in their psyche. The opening scenes from the film, the assassination of party apparatchiks performed by patriotic underground soldiers. Despite its contents, the film, made in 1956, was meant to explain and justify the role of communist in post war Poland. Love at first sight: Love develops
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:03:42 GMT 1
Promised Land by Andrzej Wajda, a Polish clerk is fired by a German employer and factory owner in the 19 century city of Łódź . Before the clerk leaves, he tells the boss to kiss his ass, and calls him a thief and a redneck muzzle. The trailer of the film The unreleased ending of the original film. This clip has been added to the DVD reedition of 1975 movie. Afte Karol Borowiecki marries a daughter of a German cotton tycoon, he becomes rich at last what has always been his dream. When the workers of cotton factories in Łódź protest against terrible conditions of work and predatory exploitation, Borowiecki orders to shoot. A Jewish businessman, satirical view A German businessman Borowiecki`s partner, Moryc, arranges a loan with a Jewish banker. Another film by Wajda, from 1961. Samson, about a young Jewish man in the Warsaw Ghetto. ""In its first part, the film is a masterpiece. Never before has Wajda revealed such virtuosity. He has not succumbed to the temptation of formal exercise. Far from any baroque mannerism, he says what he has to say firmly, even brutally, while using a minimum of effects, in shades nearly classical. This style present throughout the film reveals a great talent on the threshold of maturity."" Georges Sadoul "Les Lettres Françaises", Paris, 1964
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:04:06 GMT 1
This piece contains fragments of films based on Sienkiewicz`s novels: The Deluge and Sword and Fire.
It presents Polish winged hussars in battles.
Fire and Sword, with a little musical parody, the original soundtrack was replaced by rock songs of Polish groups, very funny if you know Polish.
The beginning of the film:
More, with easy-going Cossack troops marching into a battle against Poles, singing a beautiful song.
Fighting scenes
A mix of scenes, Polish Ukrainian folklore:
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:04:32 GMT 1
The Pianist, by Roman Polanski.
After being discovered by a German officer, Spilman has to play the piano to prove he is a musician. He plays Chopin, of course. Ballad 1.
The last part of the film.The officer says goodbye to Spilman, then there is liberation. Spilman is lucky not to be shot as a German.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:05:23 GMT 1
Roman Polanski`s first and only feature film made in Poland. The Knife in Water, opening scenes.
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Earlier, in 1958, he had made a short film Two Men with a Wardrobe.
Hardly any words are spoken in it. It is not too cheering up.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:05:53 GMT 1
Salto, (Sault) by Konwicki, made in 1965.
This film belongs to the so called Polish film school of 60s.
I watched it when I was a teenager. I couldn`t understand it and turned off the set after some time. It seemed too absurd and surrealistic. Yet, the film is considered a cult one.
The main character is played by Zbigniew Cybulski, a leading actor at the time. He took after Dean a little. Became a legend during his lifetime and died tragically under a train. He also played in Ashes and Diamonds.
See other scenes from the film:
A Jewish singer
A man drinks vodka and bites the glass, at 2:00.
The main character leaves the place
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:06:13 GMT 1
A beautiful scene with a puppet theatre in "The double Life of Veronica" by Krzysztof Kieślowski. That`s the crucial moment when Veronica falls in love with the puppeteer. No wonder. In the background amazing music by Zbigniew Preisner. When the film was released, I bought the CD and listened to it for hours, later days, then weeks.... It is so enchanting.... The beginning of the film. Veronica meets her French doppelganger during an anticommunist demonstration in Krakow. Trailer Kieslowski moves beyond politics and deliberates over other existential predicaments.
This double DVD pack not only gives the viewer a visual treat with its main features but a crash course in Polish cinema as a bonus. Krzysztof Kieslowski was one of Poland's most political filmmakers. Why he chose to make the mystical dreamlike Double Life Of Veronique is revealed in the second DVD that gives us the political background of almost all Kieslowski films.
Whether it is his monumental trilogy Blue, White and Red or his masterpiece Decalogue that features his A Short Film About Love, the filmmaker's disenchantment with politics, but his need to continuously refer to it is highlighted through the documentary.
However, let us celebrate the subtle yet completely moving performance by French actress Irene Jacob, who plays both Veronique and Weronika in this 1991 film.
The story revolves around two women who are connected through music and live similar lives but in different countries. Veronique is from Paris and works at a music school, while Weronika is Polish, lives in Karkow and sings with the opera. Both suffer from a heart ailment. They have never met before. Yet each woman feels a strange connection, as if they are not alone. While one gives up all in pursuit of her dream, the other gives up halfway to follow a different path.
This tale of intrigue and mystery unfolds against the backdrop of two highly political incidents. One is the civil protest of workers against the Soviet Bloc in Karkow while the other is the bomb blast at the Paris station. If it was an early Kieslowski film, the political struggle would have been the centrepiece. However, by this time, the director was occupied with pondering over more existential dilemmas.
In Double Life, he examines the power of free will over fatalism and talks about the possibilities of choosing to mould one's life. Given that the early death of Weronika symbolises the submission of Poland to the Soviet Bloc after the Second World War, the filmmaker indicates the important role that fate has to play.
On the other hand, the Parisian Veronique symbolises free will and its triumph. The puppeteer, played by Bruce Schwartz, is central to Veronique's discovery of her doppelganger. Some speculate that the manipulative puppeteer is actually a reference to America who was instrumental in playing Big Brother during the Soviet-America standoff.
Political references aside, Double Life is a cinematic feast and every lover should watch it. The camera movements, the special lighting and the haunting background score reconfirm that Kieslowski is a master of his craft.
Irene Jacob in 'La Double vie de Veronique'
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 17, 2008 22:06:41 GMT 1
Two years ago the creator of this animated film was to receive an Oscar for it. An amazing film and the story is also intriguing. I don`t know why but I like it very much, it is close to my heart.
The Cathedral.
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Post by ola on Mar 8, 2008 0:18:28 GMT 1
I know Cybulski was famous - but did anyone genuinely think he could act? I've always wondered about that. Who is the handsome actor in the new film based on Sienkiewicz's Ogniem i Mieczem, by the way? Or was it Potop?
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 9, 2008 9:33:28 GMT 1
I know Cybulski was famous - but did anyone genuinely think he could act? I've always wondered about that. Cybulski was a great actor of his times. Michał Żebrowski? Yes, he used to be an idol of teenage girls....hahahaha He is still popular today.... www.zebrowski.stopklatka.pl/ogniem_i_mieczem/index.html
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Post by livia on Mar 10, 2008 10:31:55 GMT 1
I know Cybulski was famous - but did anyone genuinely think he could act? I've always wondered about that. Who is the handsome actor in the new film based on Sienkiewicz's Ogniem i Mieczem, by the way? Or was it Potop? Michal Zebrowski played a little handsome, always correct, and a little boring Jan Skrzetuski. While Aleksander Domgarow played really handsome, wild at heart and interesting Jurko Bohun. Unfortunatelly the candy-sweet Helena played by Izabella Skorupko chose the Pole not the Kozak.
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 21, 2008 17:22:24 GMT 1
A short film by Filip Bajon.
1980, two men meet on a train to Gdańsk. The time is hot, workers` strikes paralysed the life in northern Poland. The main message of the film: It always works out, it is always worth it, always. It`s always worth having hope.
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 24, 2008 19:38:11 GMT 1
Poland plays `Tricks' for Oscar Jakimowski film Polish candidate for awards By MICHAL CHACINSKIWARSAW Variety 9/21/08
The Polish candidate for the foreign-language film Oscar is Andrzej Jakimowski's soph directorial venture "Sztuczki" (Tricks).
The film revolves around a 6-year-old trying to employ fate to persuade his estranged father to return to the family.
"Tricks" premiered at last year's Venice Days, where it drew the Prix Europa Cinemas and Laterna Magica awards. Released in Poland by Kino Swiat Intl., the film has won awards at more 20 festivals and has been distributed in about 30 countries (but not the U.S.).
Tricks was released Oct. 26 in Poland.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences has invited 96 countries to submit films for foreign-language Oscar consideration. Deadline for submission is Oct. 1, the nominations will be announced Jan. 22, and the 81st awards ceremony takes place on Feb. 22.
Little Moscow wins Poland's top film festival
21.09.2008
Little Moscow, the first Polish feature film dealing with the history of the Soviet army stationed in Poland, has won the Best Film Prize at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.
Little Moscow of the title refers to the Polish town of Legnica, where the headquarters of the Soviet Army stationing in Poland from the end of World War Two until 1993 were located. The film, written and directed by Waldemar Krzystek, is based on an authentic story of the dramatic relationship between the wife of a Russian pilot and a Polish officer.
Little Moscow also won acclaim at this year's Festival in Karlove Vary.
In the Best Director Prize category the prize at the Gdynia festival went to Malgorzata Szumowska. Her 33 Scenes from Life is a story of 33 year-old Julia, a successful photographer, married to a famous composer. When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, her husband proves to be of no help while her father seems to need help even more than she does. The pieces of her happy life begin to fall apart all around her. 33 Scenes from Life also won the Critics' Award as well as `Best Photography' and `Best Soundtrack' Prizes.
The Best Screenplay Prize was given to Michal Rosa whose Scratch probes into a crisis of a married couple who have lived in harmony for many years until they bcome caught up in their past: the husband's unconfirmed collaboration with the secret police during the communist period.
According to most critics covering the festival, most of the 16 features competing for accolades represent very high artistic standard.
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 16, 2008 9:47:32 GMT 1
Actor, Director Jerzy Stuhr Opens Polish Film Festival Polish News, IL Friday, 14 November 2008 Five of the Famed Thespian's Films to Be Screened Nov. 15 to 19 Jerzy Stuhr The Rochester N.Y. Polish Film Festival is hitting the big time. This year, the five-day festival will not only showcase some of Poland's best cinematic treasures as it has for the past dozen years, it also will bring to town one of Poland's most acclaimed actors, screenplay writers, and directors to headline the event. Jerzy Stuhr will introduce and discuss five films in which he played a leading role or that he directed. "Jerzy Stuhr is Poland's Dustin Hoffman and Stephen Spielberg rolled into one," said Randall Stone, director of the University of Rochester's Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, which is sponsoring the film festival. "Like Dustin Hoffman, Stuhr is an outstanding character actor, able to bring to life all kinds of roles, from comic to tragic; like Stephen Spielberg, his films are intensely entertaining but deeply serious." Stuhr, who has won a host of Polish and international film awards, including the 2005 Life Achievement Award at the International Film Festival in Venice, is best known internationally for his role as the thick-witted hairdresser Jurek in Kieœlowski's Three Colors: White. In Poland, fans love his character Max from the 1985 cult comedy Seksmisja, while youngsters know him through the voice of Donkey in the Polish version of Shrek. On Nov. 15, the opening day of the festival, Stuhr will participate in a panel discussion at the Little Theatre with three University professors: George Grella, associate professor of English and a film critic for City Newspaper, Ewa Hauser, adjunct associate professor of political science, and Jennifer Creech, assistant professor of modern languages and cultures. Stuhr will meet with audiences after the Nov. 15, 16 , and 17 screenings, and will hold a book signing on Nov. 17 at 9 p.m. On Monday, Nov. 17, Stuhr will visit the University campus. The event concludes on Nov. 19. In a sign of the festival's growing importance, the Skalny Center has attracted for the first time financial backing from the Polish Filmmakers Association. Along with a strong Polish community, Rochester has a widely recognized reputation in film through the Eastman Kodak Co. and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, explained Stone. That foundation, coupled with the growing popularity of the Rochester High Falls International Film Festival, makes the city an attractive home for a regional Polish film festival. The films will be screened at the Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. and all will be shown with English subtitles. The ticket price is $8.00 for the evening shows and $6.00 for the matinee. Students and seniors pay $5.00. Little Theatre Film Society members receive their membership discount. For details, visit www.rocheste r.edu/college/ psc/CPCES/ PFF.htm or contact the Skalny Center at (585) 275-9898 . A schedule of the films follows: Nov. 15, 3 p.m. and Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m. Camera Buff (Amator), 1979, Director: Krzysztof Kieœlowski In this political satire, Jerzy Stuhr plays Filip, a factory worker who, after the birth of his first child, buys an 8mm movie camera to record his daughter's first few years on film. Before long, Filip is obsessed with his new hobby, and he shoots footage of nearly everything he encounters. His zeal to record all that he sees soon runs him afoul of government officials who guard secrets they don't want revealed and of his wife who becomes fed up with his need to live life from behind the camera. Stuhr's Filip is a remarkable creation—a man who is at once inspiring, loving, and pathetic. Stuhr will be available to speak with the audience after the Camera Buff screenings. Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 16, 3 p.m. Twists of Fate (Korowód), 2007, Director: Jerzy Stuhr This gripping film spans the moral attitudes of two generations and their complex entanglements. A former secret police officer under Polish Socialism faces the consequences for his past actions. Meanwhile, Bartek, a student who makes a career from lying and cheating, finds a briefcase and a coat containing a mobile phone on a train. When the phone begins to ring, Bartek doesn't hesitate to answer it, setting off a shocking series of events that changes the characters' lives forever. A panel discussion with Jerzy Stuhr and local film experts will follow the Nov. 15 screening of Twists of Fate. Stuhr will also be available to speak to the audience after the Nov. 16 Twists of Fate screening. Nov. 17, 7 p.m. List of Lovers (Spis cudzolo¿nic), 1995, Director: Jerzy Stuhr Jerzy Stuhr serves as the writer-director- star of this de lightful comedy, playing a shy Kraków academic given the job of showing a visiting Swedish professor around town. During their time together, Stuhr's woman-hungry companion pushes his tour guide to locate some female companionship. When Stuhr calls up an old flame, some unusual sparks fly. A book signing with Jerzy Stuhr will follow the Nov. 17 screening of List of Lovers. The Big Animal (Du¿e Zwierzê), 2000, Director: Jerzy Stuhr Nov. 18, 7 p.m. The Big Animal (Du¿e Zwierzê), 2000, Director: Jerzy Stuhr Scripted by the late Krzysztof Kieœlowski and shot in shimmering black-and-white by Pawe³ Edelman (the Oscar-nominated cinematographer for Roman Polañski's The Pianist), The Big Animal is an inspiring film celebrating the most human of themes: love, tolerance, and sacrifice. The film's director Jerzy Stuhr stars as Zygmunt Sawicki, an ordinary bank clerk in a small Polish town, who awakens one morning to discover a camel outside his kitchen window. As he and his wife grow increasingly fond of their remarkable pet, the animal evokes their neighbors' jealousy and greed. The Big Animal is a charming fairy tale for grownups—a wise and cautionary parable about tolerance that is at once funny, compassionate and heartwarming. Nov. 19, 7 p.m. Three Colors – White (Trzy Kolory – Bialy), 1994, Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski This is the second of the Three Colors trilogy Red, White, and Blue; the colors symbolizing liberty, equality, and fraternity. White, therefore, was written around the destructive dynamics of a relationship based upon great inequality. Karol, a Polish hairdresser living in Paris, is divorced by his beautiful wife for his inability to consummate the marriage. Karol loses all of his earthly possessions and is literally driven out of France. Forced to begin anew, he returns to Poland and plans a clever scheme of revenge against her.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 1, 2009 15:05:04 GMT 1
Stake Higher than Life was a hit serial about captain Hans Kloss, a Polish spy, J-23, in a German uniform. As an officer of Abwehr he won the war for allies by his incredible exploits. The opening of each episode. All Poles know this music. The serial is repeated every year on some channel. In a recent poll about most popular characters Hans Kloss won the first prize. Herman Brunner from SS is his rival, then enemy. [image] More pics here: wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/~whatfor/pfw_stawka_wieksza.htmHans Kloss smoking A parody of the film with a changed dubbing. Various scenes for the serial Comic book
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 1, 2009 15:11:56 GMT 1
What will you do when you catch me?, a comedy from 1978. People are lining in the shop, two men quarrel. They are photographed by the shop staff to show their pictures on the board: We don`t serve these customers. Later there is a scene with a man who finds it offensive when a cleaning lady takes a chicken with dirty hands. Shop assistants are shouting: Mr manager, he snatched the chicken from my hands! He stole my rag! He is a thief! And a drunkard because every thief is a drunkard! The man: I just stick to basic rules of hygiene.... The manager: Excuse me, but the basic rules of hygiene are that you should knock on the door. And you entered this room without knocking and with a dirty rag. The man: I won`t buy here! The wife apologizes and begs the manager to close an eye because that is the last shop in the district which hasn`t been offended by her husband. The husband replies: I will go to another city but I won`t buy in this shop! You can put me on this board of yours. The manager: I am sorry but we decide about it. The customer puts the chicken on the desk: And now?! pl.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ut3jdWBVcA man breaks the law crossing the street. The woman doesn`t. Film unavailable A pair of lovers, spending nice time in a hotel room, is abruptly disturbed by a cleaning lady. She shouts through the window to her workmate to stop loitering with her partner (some dwarfish man) and come back to the hotel to clean room 12. To enter the beach one must show a pass. The man buys an inflatable toy in the kiosk and uses its label as a pass. The dump truck driver is stopped and bribed by a businessman to help him carry some load. Before he does it, he must remove the load from his own truck. He blocks a few cars, then one of the cars gets damaged. See how: Film unavailable Also a scene how a man catches a taxi. To the train station! Working in socialism. "What`s the matter?! Either eaiting or working! The manipulation by TV. The footage in the news is about some exhibition at the train station. The TV family feud show between medical teams. The doctors from the lost team comment: Those patients are a rigged lottery. We got such a fatso that before I managed to get through fat tissue, they were already operating. And later: The show leader: A question to the team from Zabrze city. What percentage has the number of hospital beds increased by in recent time? Nurse: 7218 hours. Leader: Yes, but this is an answer to the question number 3 which I haven`t read yet and which is:how many overtime hours have the medical staff worked? But I hope the jury will accept this answer in advance. Right?
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 1, 2009 15:48:23 GMT 1
From Alternatywy 4, a Polish serial made in 1980 by Stanislaw Bareja but not shown till 1986. The serial was too controvercial for communist leaders. Here you can see two construction workers who voluntarily take up reinstalling the gas pipe in the kitchen so that the cooker could stand next to the wall. The tennant asks: How did you know about my pipe? Worker: Because we built this house. Next they draw the tennant`s attention to the curved walls, rough floor, too short door, pipes all over the room. That was the way houses were built in communist Poland. pl.youtube.com/watch?v=SDPHmx5hDJA&feature=relatedA tenant shows the faulty facilities in his new apartment pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz2_X4QBX-MTrying to put a wardrobe straight on the floor is impossible, so it must be glued to the wall. pl.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrMC_udaS4&feature=relatedA street incident. Nie ma Róży bez Ognia, There `s no Rose without Fire another comedy by Stanisław Bareja. A bespectacled man wants to inibriate his lodger. He pretends to drink whisky (coloured water) while he pours the other man pure vodka. Watch how fast the latter one drinks! After a bottle with fake whisky is broken, the bespectacled man must drink true vodka. The results are disastrous. At the end of the film the female neighbour is full of admiration: "Johnny, I didn`t know you are such a stuntman as to climb up to the twelfth storey to my window." Again, faulty facilities and equipment in a new apartment pl.youtube.com/watch?v=C2xJ8pK0BSEA nice scene in a classroom with a schoolboy informing on his mates and the teacher visibly disgusted. pl.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3lRSud8ss&feature=related
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 1, 2009 15:56:39 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 1, 2009 16:30:31 GMT 1
War films Eroica by Andrzej Munk, late 1950s. The film deals with the romantic myth of Polish heroism during the war. The character gets drunk in the midst of ferocious fighting during Warsaw Uprising. Hubal - the one I liked as a child in 70s. It is about a Polish army major who didn`t capitulate in September 1939 but continued partisan fighting for 6 months until killed in action. The music during the charge has always fascinated me. See the Polish cavalry charge: Dialogue: 1:32 - Sir, lieutenant Karwiński reporting, in first platoon nobody killed. 01:39 - Sir, lieutenant Kilin reporting, in second platoon two soldiers killed. 01:43 - Bodies on the wagon. 01:44 - Sir, lieutenant Masłowski reporting, in third platoon nobody killed. 01:51 - What shall we do with prisoners? 02:01 - Sir, what does it mean: "Gott mit uns"? 02:05 - "God with us". 02:10 - With them!? 02:13 - Let them go! 02:14 - But, sir... 02:17 - Carry the order! And here hand to hand combat, bayonett attack at 1:28 The end The film was made in 1973. Pasażerka, The Passenger from 1963 The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. Venice Film Festival Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s) 1964 Won Italian Film Critics Award Andrzej Munk The Passenger, while continuing some of the themes of his previous work, takes on a markedly different, more sombre, tone. The film is the story of a woman, Liza, returning to Europe for the first time since leaving after WW2. On the boat she sees the face of a woman, Marta, who was a prisoner in Liza’s charge at Auschwitz. The encounter triggers painful memories in Liza which cause a series of desperate attempts at self-justification for working as a guard in such a place. At first she succeeds in convincing herself that she did the best she could for Marta – that she too suffered by having to work in that horrible place. But slowly another history erupts from within; a history that she has suppressed in herself, and which now she finds unable to deny, a history which shows Liza’s actions were not as benign as she wants to remember.
The story is structured around a series of flashbacks, each one revealing a deeper and more complex view of the past. The present day material is comprised of still photographs that have a loose and impromptu feel – undoubtedly because they were taken very quickly. The past is presented in strikingly composed black and white sequences of the prison camp, where a depravity and callous inhumanity pervades. The flashbacks were shot in Auschwitz, with crew living in the grounds for the duration of the shoot. The horrors that took place were re-enacted, restaged, and re-envisioned to chilling affect.
More about the film: www.secondrundvd.com/release_more_p_2.phpKanał;, Canal, 1957, about Warsaw Uprising, the evacuation through city sewers. A fragment of the film, going through sewers Kanał earned Wajda the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1957 (the second most prestigious award after the Palme d'Or), solidifying his position as Poland's premier director. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana%C5%82_%28film%29Westerplatte, made in 1967. The beginning of fight pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj7_tWTrR6I&feature=relatedThe battle goes on for 7 days. Soldiers fight and wait for allies` help. pl.youtube.com/watch?v=mWN8zSOeYGw&feature=relatedpl.youtube.com/watch?v=45rRVnlsfxk&feature=relatedAfter 7 days of heroic fight, the Polish unit capitulates to Germans. pl.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iqu5XVvQ-s&feature=relatedWesterplatte - a peninsula at the entry to Gdansk Harbour. A Polish ammunition depot in the free City Gdansk. It's crew - one infantry company and a group of civilians. A total of 182 people. The only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula. Five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns, four mortars. It was the first obstacle to Hitler's predatory march across Europe. The first shots of World War II were fired here.
At dawn of first September 1939, the "Schleswig-Hostein" approached to within several hundred metres of Westerplatte and at 4.45 hours opened fire. It's a begining of II World War. The German ship maintained fire for 6 minutes, after which the infantry moved in to first attack. For about 200 Polish soldiers and their commander, Major Henryk Sucharski it's the first from seven days of their heroic defence.
Another comment For me it's the best Polish war movie. This true story about almost 200 hundred Polish soldiers became a legend in Poland. Westerplatte it's a peninsula near Gdansk and there first shots of II world war was fired. Proportion of Polish and German forces was 1:20 (one Polish soldier to 20 German). German used Cuirassier "Schleswig Holstein", other Ships, Dive Bombers to beat Polish soldiers who was supposed to defence by 12 hours. They defend 7 days. In this movie you'll see all this heroes and how was it in real. German thought that it will be easy job, but they don't knew that on the Westerplatte was hide 5 sentrys, outposts and Polish soldiers was the best in they speciality. Great cinematography, great acting. It's the great movie.Kolumbowie,Kolumbowie rocznik 20, Columbuses, born 1920 A serial for Polish TV. the beginning of the Rising, victorious insurgents, happy civilians. Later it was only worse. After a month of incredible fighting, insurgents must retreat to another district through sewers or streets under fire. Insurgents' attempt to break through the Old Town siege into the City Centre overnight fails. Only one group, disguised in Wehrmacht uniforms, marches in three soldier column through the German positions in Saxon Garden into City Centre. The 4th and 5th part are about Warsaw Uprising. At 1.30 see how Germans use Warsaw civilians to protect their tanks from insurgents` fire. At 3.25 see a boy who takes part in fighting. At 7.50 see how an insurgent watches his fiancee burning alive. Serial made in 1970.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 1, 2009 16:46:43 GMT 1
A gangster comedy, Boys Don`t Cry.A young novice gangster acts as a host to two experienced ones. The novice loves black people while veterans are racists. Drunken policemen get a free ride and accidentally arrest gangsters. A gangster is knocked out by a professional boxer (Polish boxing ex-champion) who plays a game: Who`s smarter? A gangster is approached by 3 hoodlums who demand his briefcase. What have you fakin done to me, you bandit! Stop whining. Boys don`t cry! pl.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5cv2UHzyg&feature=relatedKaczynski Twins starred in The Two Who Stole the Moon, a film for children made in 1960s. Here, with a little changed soundtrack.
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Post by locopolaco on Feb 2, 2009 4:24:48 GMT 1
holy cow, i may even be in possession of this very one.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 2, 2009 13:00:35 GMT 1
From Alternatywy 4, a Polish serial made in 1980 by Stanislaw Bareja but not shown till 1986. The serial was too controvercial for communist leaders. Here you can see two construction workers who voluntarily take up reinstalling the gas pipe in the kitchen so that the cooker could stand next to the wall. The tennant asks: How did you know about my pipe? Worker: Because we built this house. Next they draw the tennant`s attention to the curved walls, rough floor, too short door, pipes all over the room. That was the way houses were built in communist Poland. pl.youtube.com/watch?v=SDPHmx5hDJA&feature=relatedA tenant shows the faulty facilities in his new apartment pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz2_X4QBX-MTrying to put a wardrobe straight on the floor is impossible, so it must be glued to the wall. pl.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrMC_udaS4&feature=relatedA street incident. More: A housewife brings meat home and everybody admires it. Later on there is an argument between a nosy communist caretaker and the tennant. The obsessed caretaker tries to force the tennants to work for free around their block. Everybody refuses except for a black man who does the job. Murzyn zrobi³ swoje. Tennants are fed with their crazy caretaker who blackmails them and forces to hard work. They weave a plot to abolish him. It takes place during a visit of international delegates who want to see an exemplary house. The tennants stage a parody of a house, the delegates are shocked and run away.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 2, 2009 22:22:10 GMT 1
holy cow, i may even be in possession of this very one. I am in possession of all of them. Hey, I think I will show some of them in a seperate thread.
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