Kinoklasyka - digitally remastered Polish classics with English subtitles

KINOKLASYKA
- digitally remastered Polish classics with English subtitles
from April 11, 2014

Cinema Pod Baranami invites English-speaking audience to monthly screenings of digitally remastered Polish classics with English subtitles. First screening will take place on April 11. The audience will see Blind Chance (1981) by famous Polish director, Krzysztof Kieślowski. The film includes formerly censored scenes. 

Blind Chance presents three separate storylines about a man chasing a train and how such an ordinary incident could influence the rest of his life. Kieślowski blends his trademark passion for character and poetic imagery with a boldly novelistic narrative conceit. Facing an unclear future, Witek, an earnest young Polish medical student, chooses to put his education on hold. With his head full of the promising and ominous portents of his new adult life, Witek hurries to catch the last train to Warsaw. But as he races down the platform, Blind Chance blossoms into three successive scenarios in which Witek's catching or missing his train spawns three completely different futures.

Originally filmed in 1981, Blind Chance was suppressed by the Polish Communist-era authorities for several years until its delayed release in Poland on 10 January 1987. In 2012 it was digitally remastered and brought back to it’s former glory by Digital Movie Repository - coordinator of the Kinoklasyka project, which consists of the finest and the most important works of Polish cinematography presented in digital versions with high quality of picture and sound. Another screenings of Kinoklasyka will take place on April 23rd (Separate Tables by Janusz Majewski) and May 15th (Pigs - the cult film by Władysław Pasikowski). Each movie will be presented with an accompanying short documentary and introduction by film critics from EKRANy Magazine.


PROGRAMME:

Friday, April 11, 6.45 p.m.
BLIND CHANCE | PRZYPADEK
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland 1981, 123’

Kieślowski explores the autonomy of human choices by presenting three alternative versions of the life of 20-year old Witek, whose whole future depends on whether he can catch a train. A universal message - faith in the internal autonomy of every human being and insistence on common decency regardless of circumstances - joined in a comment on the current political debate, an objection raised against simplified black-and-white divisions. One of the ‘delayed releases’ of the 1980s with the striking main part played by Bogusław Linda.

& SEVEN WOMEN OF DIFFERENT AGES | SIEDEM KOBIET W RÓŻNYM WIEKU
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland 1978, 17’
Subtle portraits of seven women, dancers of different ages.


Wednesday, April 23, 7 p.m.
SEPARATE TABLES | ZAKLĘTE REWIRY
dir. Janusz Majewski, Poland 1975, 100’

The 1930s. To the young and poor Roman Boryczko the luxurious restaurant of the Hotel Pacific which he watches through a window seems an almost magical world. He succeeds in getting employed - he starts from washing dishes but quickly moves upwards to become a waiter. This social and professional promotion comes at the price of numerous moral compromises. While discovering mysteries of the art of waiting tables Roman becomes an adult and mature man.

& WSZYSCY DLA WSZYSTKICH
dir. Leszek Tarnowski, Paweł Kędzierski, Poland 1976, 11’
Masterful portrait of Polish communist reality - a regular day in the tailor’s shop.
(in original version without subtitles)


Thursday, May 15, 7 p.m.
PIGS | PSY 
dir. Władysław Pasikowski, Poland 1992, 111’

A crime thriller set at the turn of the 80s and 90s, a time of national transition in Poland. The story follows a former KGB agent - now a policeman - as he attempts to eradicate the steadily growing influence of the mob in Poland. One of the most famous performances by Bogusław Linda, great Polish actor.

& FROM A NIGHT PORTIER'S POINT OF VIEW
| Z PUNKTU WIDZENIA NOCNEGO PORTIERA
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland 1977, 15’
With considerable economy and grace, Kieslowski's early short elucidates the workings of the Communist system by airing the views of a paranoid and misanthropic night porter whose favourite pastime is the control of others.


All films will be shown in original version with English subtitles


TICKETS:
17 PLN (regular)
13 PLN (discount) 
ENTRY PASS (3 screenings): 33 PLN


PARTNERS:
EKRANy
Polish Films in English
KinoRP
Digital Movie Repository