Polish writer/director Aleksander Ford's Eighth Day of the Week takes an astonishing anti-Communist stance--the first of many that would compel Ford to leave his homeland after a general governmental crackdown on personal expression in 1968. Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play a married couple who fall through the cracks of Red bureaucracy in Warsaw. The film does not ende...
A suicidal alcoholic’s last day teems with images of anxiety and Kafkaesque paranoia. Adapted from Marek Hlasko’s novel ‘The First Step in the Clouds’, Has’ feature debut is cinematic delirium tremens, as young man Kuba Kowalski escapes his cramped flat to wander from bar to bar, unable to escape the trap of isolation. The metaphorical noose tightens as Kuba, nearly saved by th...
Czeslaw Petelski是50年代波兰电影学院派的另一位重要导演,本片是他的代表作,其中的黑白摄影非常出色。
Set in the harsh wilderness of southeastern Poland, this violent drama portrays the story of hard-working truck drivers shocked out of their grueling routine when their new boss shows up with a beautiful wife in tow. Lonely and facing death each day from their hazardous jobs, the woman's presence explodes an already des...