The retrospective was prepared in partnership with the Polish National Audiovisual Institute.Ī teenager during World War II, Konwicki joined the Polish resistance movement, fighting first the occupying Nazi army and then the Soviets. We will show his masterpieces, such as a debut psychological drama The Last Day of Summer starring Jan Machulski and Irena Laskowska, the cult Salto and unconventional literary adaptations The Issa Valley (based on a novel by Czesław Miłosz) and A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve', as well as some slightly forgotten gems of the Polish cinema: All Souls' Day and How Far Away, How Near. The Polish retrospective will feature Tadeusz Konwicki: an outstanding writer, screenwriter, film director and director of the "Kadr" Film Studio, who has recently passed away. Born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, near Vilnius (today Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania), died on January 7th in Warsaw at 88 years old. Founder of the 'cinema d'auteur' in Poland and author of 20 books. Prose writer, screenwriter and film director.
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