Showing posts with label communism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communism. Show all posts

04 January 2019

Bez końca / No End (by Krzysztof Kieślowski)



It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her son, in sex, and in hypnosis. In a subplot, Ulla refers the wife of one of her husband's clients - Darek, a jailed Solidarity strike organizer - to Labrador, a world-weary, aging attorney, who works to free Darek by various political manipulations and psychological ploys.

09 August 2018

Przypadek / Blind Chance (by Krzysztof Kieślowski)



Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

03 December 2016

At Full Gallop (by Krzysztof Zanussi) ***NO ENGLISH SUBS***



In the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. In spite of harsh Stalinist times, they are both fascinated by horses.