The Conductor

+ intro by film critic and scholar Michał Oleszczyk

Dyrygent

John Gielgud’s renowned conductor returns to Poland, which complicates the life of a married couple and their local orchestra.

  • Director

    Andrzej Wajda

  • With

    John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn

  • Poland 1980. 106min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

An internationally renowned conductor of Polish descent (played with gusto by Gielgud) returns to his family’s homeland to conduct a provincial orchestra after meeting the orchestra’s violist – the daughter of an old love. Beloved by Ingmar Bergman, The Conductor comments on the moral decay and stagnation of a society and its artists. It’s a beautifully performed, sensitively directed drama.

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