Mercredi 23 septembre 2026 19:00
Langues : version originale anglaise lieux : Cercle Cité - Auditorium 2e étage
Générique
synopsis
Dans une petite ville polonaise, au dernier jour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Maciek, membre de la résistance clandestine anticommuniste, reçoit l’ordre d’assassiner un commissaire nouvellement arrivé. Mais lorsqu’il rencontre une jeune serveuse et tombe amoureux d’elle, il commence à remettre en question son engagement envers une cause qui l’oblige à risquer sa vie.
Considered by many to be the greatest Polish film ever made, and by most to be Wajda’s finest work, it was his first film after the thaw. Despite being the culmination of his thematically connected ‘war trilogy’, it was free of the proscriptive shackles of social realism that been imposed on the previous entries by Soviet control. Instead, Wajda was able to fully flex his storytelling muscles, crafting a poetic and deeply symbolic work that explored the dualities of the postwar national psyche and energised the industry.
BFI
Cybulski speaks for a new, younger disaffected generation, reassessing its past and uncertain of its future. In this complex and beautiful film, Wajda finds a way to lucidly express confusion and capture the soul of a people constantly trapped by the forces of history.
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