| The Tin Drum (The Criterion Collection)
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Based on the classic novel by Gunter Grass, this drama of a young boy who beats a tin drum to combat his feelings of desperation and anger during the rise of the Third Reich is as dark and disturbing as it is utterly compelling. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
This Oscar-winning adaptation of Günter Grass's novel is an absurdist fantasy about a little German boy (David Bennent) who wills himself at the age of three not to grow up in protest of the Nazi regime. Made unnecessarily notorious in recent years due to overzealous censors in some parts of the United States, the film is more startling and surreal than obscene. Bennent is very good, and while the 1979 film doesn't meet the high standards of the best work from the then-renaissance of German film, it has a special place in the hearts of many who saw it upon its release. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff (The Handmaid's Tale). --Tom Keogh
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| Colonel Wolodyjowski (ES)
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The third and final volume of a momentous trilogy, following WITH FIRE AND SWORD and THE DELUGE. A monumental epic of battle, love, and betrayal. The Turks are invading Poland. Colonel Wolodyjowski strikes up a bargain with some local rapscallions. They mount a final defense against the massive and extremely well-armed Turkish army. This film features some of the most incredible battle scenes ever filmed. This epic was also caught up in the events of its own time. Just before production, the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia, provoking worldwide outrage. The Communists pressed the filmmakers to make COLONEL WOLODYJOWSKI metaphorically rationalize this invasion. This pressure, and the filmmakers’ resistance to it, carries over into the film: making it a volatile and dangerous work.
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| Promised Land (Director's Cut)
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Andrzej Wajda’s interpretation of a classic 19th century epic depicts the sweeping change in values ushered in by the industrial revolution. Three friends hope to build a factory, but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner’s dangerous love affair. Critically acclaimed for its masterful direction and fine acting, this ever-current film has a strong statement to make about modern times. With the master director’s brand new re-edit made possible by Poland’s liberation from Communism. In Polish w/ English Subtitles
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| Young Girls Of Wilko
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Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, this breathtaking Andrzej Wajda films rbings Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz’s classic novel to the big screen. After 15 years away, Wiktor returns to Wilko, where he spent a very important part of his life. He comes to realize his own personal impact on the town and meets many people whom he will never forget. His presence, in turn, forces the young girls of Wilko to reconsider their complicated lives and personal failures.
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- Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this breathtaking Andrzej Wajda film brings Jaroslaw Iwaskiewiczic novel to the big screen. After 15 years away, Wiktor returns to Wilko, where he spent a very important part of his life. He comes to realize his own personal impact on the town and meets many people whom he will never forget. His presence, in turn forces the young girls of Wilko to reco
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| Everything for Sale
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Inspired by the tragic death of the great Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski, this Andrzej Wajda film focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of a director and his actors when they are disrupted by the mysterious murder of their leading man. It is, in director Wajda’s words, "a story about the people who make films – the directors and the actors." Film fiction mixes with reality as some of the actors play themselves. Everything For Sale can also be viewed as a glimpse into the way in which Wajda deals with his past and with his friendship with Cybuski.
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- Inspired by the tragic death of the great Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski, this Andrzej Wajdaic focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of a director and his actors when they are disrupted by the mysterious murder of their leading man. It is, in Director Wajda s words, A story about the people who make films the directors and the actors. Film fiction mixes with reality as a collection of the actors
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| The Tin Drum
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Based on the classic novel by Gunter Grass, this drama of a young boy who beats a tin drum to combat his feelings of desperation and anger during the rise of the Third Reich is as dark and disturbing as it is utterly compelling. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
This Oscar-winning adaptation of Günter Grass's novel is an absurdist fantasy about a little German boy (David Bennent) who wills himself at the age of three not to grow up in protest of the Nazi regime. Made unnecessarily notorious in recent years due to overzealous censors in some parts of the United States, the film is more startling and surreal than obscene. Bennent is very good, and while the 1979 film doesn't meet the high standards of the best work from the then-renaissance of German film, it has a special place in the hearts of many who saw it upon its release. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff (The Handmaid's Tale). --Tom Keogh
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| The Deluge (Potop) - Part 1
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The action of the film takes place in the 17th century, in the period of the Polish-Swedish war. The plot is woven around the stormy love of the main character in the film, Andrzej Kmicic (Daniel Olbrychski), for a young gentlewoman named Ole=E4ka. Based on the novel by Nobel prize winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz, much of this exciting and romantic film was shot in authentic, ancient Polish castles. Full screen letterbox format. Adaptacja drugiej czesci Sienkiewiczowskiej trylogii. Dramatyczne dzieje wielkiej milosci Kmicica i Olenki, ukazane na tle historycznych wydarzen polskiej rzeczywistosci XVII wieku. Wspaniale sceny batalistyczne, slynna obrona Jasnej Gory, intrygi czesci magnaterii przykuwaja od lat uwage widza. Wersja panoramiczna z czarnymi pasami u gory i dolu ekranu. 290 mins. 1973, color. English Subtitles. Extras: Screen selection, biographies.
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| Prosze Slonia DVD / Please, Mr. Elephant DVD
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A very popular Polish TV program. The story of a young elephant living with a family as a household pet.
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| First Spaceship on Venus
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In 1907, a mysterious magnetic spool crashed into the desert wasteland of the great Gobi. Nearly eighty years later, an international crew is assembled on the spaceship ""Kosmokrator"" for a manned mission to Venusthe enigmatic artifact's suspected origin.
In a utopian future of universal peace and brotherhood--1985 to be specific--a mysterious artifact found in Siberia is discovered to be a message from Venus. While the recording is studied, an international team of scientists is rocketed off to make contact with the mysterious planet. It takes the film some time to get going (worldwide harmony makes for a beautiful future but pallid drama when everyone gets along so nicely), but things begin to cook once they land on the misty wasteland of Venus. Swarms of metal bugs hop from glassy mutant trees and bubbling black mud oozes after our astronaut heroes, but no Venusians can be found amidst the geodesic architecture and buzzing power plants. What they discover instead is a terrifying conspiracy wrapped in an anti-war parable. Based on a novel by Polish science fiction legend Stanislaw Lem (whose work also inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris), this German science fiction adventure is a visual treat, from the sleek, grand, silver spaceship and a funky purple Venus landscape of alien ruins and crystalline bubbles. Decently (if prosaically) dubbed and trimmed down to a brisk 78 minutes, it's an entertaining triumph of psychedelic art direction and desolate alien weirdness presented in all its brightly colored, widescreen glory. --Sean Axmaker
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| The Adventures of Koziolek Matolek 3 DVD set
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Based on very well known story by Kornel Makuszynski, inspired by the comic book the adventures of one of the most beloved characters from children literature released for the first time in an animated series. Przygody Koziolka tak pieknie opisane przez Kornela Makuszynskiego zostaly przeniesione na tasme filmowa i sa dostepne indywidualnie lub w formie 3 kasetowego kompletu. Doskonaly prezent na kazda okazje dla dziecka. Nieznaczna ilosc dialogow w jezyku polskim. Volume. A, 85 min. Volume. B, 74 min. Volume. C, 88 min. In Polish.
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