Post by caliginous on Jul 14, 2011 12:58:39 GMT 1
Hi guys first post here.
I live in Australia (actually married to the daughter of a Polish migrant!), but that's another story....
We have a great TV station here called SBS which shows a lot of world cinema. As an avid film lover and a huge fan of Polish cinema, I always highlight the TV guide whenever SBS has a Polish film on. I'm trying to identify a film I caught many years ago, that was one of the strangest, yet most captivating film's I've ever seen.
I *think* it was called, in English, "The Voice." Not 100% sure on that.
Set in medieval Poland. The film starts with a peasant, holding his head in pain as a noise that we can't hear (the voice I assume) is in his head. Wide shot reveals he's in a snow covered forest. He goes back to his village, where a a peasant girl milking a cow attempts to have sex with him, but he flees.
Bandits come down from the hills and take the village's pigs. The next day an old knight appears in the village. He's unconscious. The villagers take care of him, he wakes up, and says he will go after the pigs. He sets off witha couple of the villagers. They find the bandits. A weird 'game' begins, almost childlike, between the villagers and the bandits - this was easily the strangest part of the film, it was quite comedic, until one of the villagers picks up an axe and kills one of the bandits. A huge fight breaks out - everyone dies, the pigs scatter. The only person left standing is the villager from the beginning. He suddenly clasps his head again at the silent voice, and runs off into the forest. The last shot i remember was awesome - he runs out of shot and the camera stays on this desolate forest for a while. Very bleak. Like I said it was a highly unusual film, but the photography was stunning throughout.
The film had almost no dialogue. I reckon maybe 20 lines all up if that. I'd say it was made in the 80s or 90s. Ring any bells with anyone? I cannot find a single thing on the internet anywhere on this film.
All sound very strange? Well not nearly as strange as when I tried to describe this to my wife's relatives in Poland when we visited and they looked at me as if I was on drugs...
I live in Australia (actually married to the daughter of a Polish migrant!), but that's another story....
We have a great TV station here called SBS which shows a lot of world cinema. As an avid film lover and a huge fan of Polish cinema, I always highlight the TV guide whenever SBS has a Polish film on. I'm trying to identify a film I caught many years ago, that was one of the strangest, yet most captivating film's I've ever seen.
I *think* it was called, in English, "The Voice." Not 100% sure on that.
Set in medieval Poland. The film starts with a peasant, holding his head in pain as a noise that we can't hear (the voice I assume) is in his head. Wide shot reveals he's in a snow covered forest. He goes back to his village, where a a peasant girl milking a cow attempts to have sex with him, but he flees.
Bandits come down from the hills and take the village's pigs. The next day an old knight appears in the village. He's unconscious. The villagers take care of him, he wakes up, and says he will go after the pigs. He sets off witha couple of the villagers. They find the bandits. A weird 'game' begins, almost childlike, between the villagers and the bandits - this was easily the strangest part of the film, it was quite comedic, until one of the villagers picks up an axe and kills one of the bandits. A huge fight breaks out - everyone dies, the pigs scatter. The only person left standing is the villager from the beginning. He suddenly clasps his head again at the silent voice, and runs off into the forest. The last shot i remember was awesome - he runs out of shot and the camera stays on this desolate forest for a while. Very bleak. Like I said it was a highly unusual film, but the photography was stunning throughout.
The film had almost no dialogue. I reckon maybe 20 lines all up if that. I'd say it was made in the 80s or 90s. Ring any bells with anyone? I cannot find a single thing on the internet anywhere on this film.
All sound very strange? Well not nearly as strange as when I tried to describe this to my wife's relatives in Poland when we visited and they looked at me as if I was on drugs...
