Photo of Wojciech Kilar
Photo of Wojciech Kilar

Wojciech Kilar

[Anne Billson on Wojciech Kilar]: For me, Kilar belongs to that select band of film composers whose music I will happily listen to repeatedly, even when I am nowhere near a cinema screen.

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    THE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTAL

    KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Poland, 1969

    The award-winning Krzysztof Zanussi, one of the great Polish filmmakers, made his feature debut with this psychologically rich, remarkably mature chamber drama about career vocation (Zanussi studied physics), friendship, and life philosophy.

    ILLUMINATION

    KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Poland, 1973

    Krzysztof Zanussi brings his sharpened poetic sensibility to the postwar generation of Poles struggling to bring purpose to their lives under Communism. The promises and struggles of love and physics set this kinetic and impressionistic film on a tailspin. Winner of Locarno’s Golden Leopard.

    THE CONSTANT FACTOR

    KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Poland, 1980

    Through its hero’s eyes—and the travails of a righteous and honest man—we see, at the end of the 1970s, what’s become of the Communist dream. One of Zanussi’s most acclaimed films and the winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

    LIFE AS A FATAL SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE

    KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Poland, 2000

    The final film—which swept the Polish Film Awards—in our Krzysztof Zanussi retrospective brings us to the post-Communist era of Poland today. An eloquent drama about the quest for spiritual harmony while facing death, it asks vital questions about how to accept the world as it changes around you.

    FAMILY LIFE

    KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Poland, 1971

    A 1971 Cannes contender from a Polish master, Krzysztof Zanussi’s taut chamber drama simmers with generational discontent. Airing out the moral rots that underpin a handsome ancestral home, Family Life reckons with the shackles of familial dysfunction—and a country in sociopolitical disarray.