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The life of Polish avant-garde artists becomes an inspiration for Andrzej Wajda’s explorations of resilience in the face of oppression.

  • Director

    Andrzej Wajda

  • With

    Bogusław Linda, Bronisława Zamachowska, Andrzej Konopka

  • Poland 2016. 98min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    12A

  • English subtitles

In his final film, Wajda returns to previously explored themes of personal and artistic resistance to an authoritarian state and ideology. Based on the life of avant-garde painter and theorist Władysław Strzemiński, the film chronicles his struggles against expulsion from state institutions, and erasure from a nation’s collective memory, as a result of political and artistic convictions that were at odds with the official Stalinist post-war doctrine.

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A lyrical documentary about a respected Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski.