Along with Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Jerzy Skolimowski, the award-winning Krzysztof Zanussi is one of the most important Polish auteurs of his generation. Zanussi’s erudite dramas chronicle the challenges of a postwar, educated class in Poland grappling with the country’s radical change to Communism, the burden of their forbearers, and the evolving development of society through the 20th century.