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Krystyna Janda

Krystyna Janda

“When Andrzej Wajda first gave me the part in Man of Marble, he told me that in whatever I do, I had to enchant, anger, or Irritate, because I had to carry half the film. And about my being up-to-date-several days later, he said, „Damnit, Americans are making films with just men. What the hell am I doing working with a woman? Can you do it like a man?” And I said, 'I’d be happy to'. That joke started the ball rolling. I suspect at some point Andrzej realized that I behaved on the screen without much thought; I acted on impulse, by instinct, because I knew such girls in my crowd.”

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    O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

    O-BI, O-BA: THE END OF CIVILIZATION

    PIOTR SZULKIN Poland, 1984

    Conjuring a claustrophobic vision of post-nuclear Poland, Piotr Szulkin lends his satirical eye to the weaponization of religion as a means of social control. A utilitarian triumph of ramshackle world-building, O-Bi, O-Ba is a hallucinatory examination of apocalyptic anxieties in the atomic age.

    The War of the Worlds: Next Century

    THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY

    PIOTR SZULKIN Poland, 1981

    Pulled from the Cannes competition in the same year that Poland declared martial law, Piotr Szulkin’s tale of alien invasion is a blazing satire of the media machine. Dedicated to H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, this noir-inflected sci-fi is an eerily prescient interrogation of the fake-news era.

    Golem

    GOLEM

    PIOTR SZULKIN Poland, 1979

    Drawing on Jewish legend, this Kafkaesque work of speculative science fiction is the debut feature by one of the great visionaries of the 20th century. From a nightmarish world of gods and monsters, Piotr Szulkin forges a modern Prometheus as a potent allegory for Poland’s Communist experiment.

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