WAJDA re-visions: Without anesthesia

TypeHall 1 - Cinema

Hour

25.10

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3:30 p.m. |

WAJDA: re-visions

A depressing picture of the Polish political and social reality of the second half of the 1970s, and at the same time a critical diagnosis of attitudes at a time of mistrust and oppression by the system. A popular reporter — modeled on the character of Ryszard Kapuściński — returns from another journalistic expedition to Poland. Surprisingly, he assumes that he becomes — without any explanation — the object of organized obscenity. At work, he is indoctrinated by a younger colleague, in the environment he is accused of conjuncturalism and opportunism, at home his wife files for divorce. So far, a successful man, suddenly abandoned by everyone, is put in Kafkovskaya's situation, losing faith in any values or even the meaning of life.

Language: Polish with English subtitles

WITHOUT ANESTHESIA, dir. Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 1978, 131'

Venue: Sala 1-Kinowa

For whom: youth, adults

Tickets: 22 (normal), 19 (reduced), 17 (with Kinomana Card) zł

Outstanding

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz's interpretation gave the character of Jerzy a tragedy, but also

a certain ambiguity. The hero once enjoyed the benefits of a system that

first he allowed appanage by an invisible mechanism, without warning

Ruthlessly destroy the old luminaries. Hardly any film has shown it so violently

the mechanism of communist totalitarianism, the apparatus of hypocrisy, opportunism,

environmental envy, the promotion of mediocrity and the temptation of promotion. Not many movies either

turned out to be so prophetic and still relevant, describing a world of degradation

values, objectification of people, lies and manipulation.