Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

Ga, Ga - Chwala bohaterom

Poland

1986

84 Min

Color

1.78:1

Polish

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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CAST Maria Ciunelis, Bożena Dykiel, Katarzyna Figura, Krystyna Kolodziejczyk, Danuta Kowalska.

Our main character lands on a supposedly uninhabited strange new world, where he is instead greeted as a “hero” and treated like royalty. He soon finds out that heroism has a price: he has to commit a crime so that he may be publicly executed in a glorious ceremony. —IMDb

Director

Piotr Szulkin

Piotr Szulkin (b. 1950, Gdansk) graduated from a fine arts high school (1970) and then in direction from Lodz’ National Film, Television & Theatre School (PWSFTViT) in 1975. He directs for film, theatre and television, and dabbles in literature as well. He has shot several short films: Everything (Wzystko), The Birth (Narodziny), Working Women (Kobiety pracujące), A Girl with a Devil (Dziewce s ciortem), Charming Eyes (Oczy uroczne) and Meat (Mieso). He has incorporated his original futurological vision, drawn from pessimistic reflections on the continuing decline of humanism, in features with imaginative scenographic solutions: Golem (1979), War of the Worlds (Wojna światów – Następne stulecie, 1981), O-bi, o-ba (O-bi, O-ba. Koniec ciwilizacji, 1985) and Ga, Ga – Glory to the Heroes (Ga, ga – chwala bohateram, 1985); such films gained him several major prizes at home and abroad. After the movie Femina (1991) he returned to his penchant for absurdity, sarcasm and artistic originality… read more