"Andrzej Wajda and Polish Television Theater" Film Screening
Anthology Film Archives
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Unique on the world scene, Polish Television Theater (Teatr Telewizji) has attracted the crème de la crème of both theatrical and film screenwriters, actors, and directors. This institution, operating under the auspices of Polish state public television, and maintaining the structure of a repertory theater, with its own budget, creative director, and set and technical staff, has been producing and broadcasting theatrical performances since 1953 – more than 4,000 of them to date. Among the many directors who have taken part in this on-going project has been Andrzej Wajda, a filmmaker much-celebrated internationally, but whose theatrical television works constitute an aspect of his career that is nearly unknown abroad. These works – many of them adaptations of Wajda’s earlier theatrical productions, and all among the most important contributions to the genre – are being shown in the U.S. for the first time.
The goal of all these dramatizations, as writer and critic Maciej Karpinski observes, is to awaken in the viewer the need to reflect on both the present and the past, the world and one’s own country, universality and individual existence.
Presented by Anthology Film Archives and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York in association with Polish Television. The program accompanies the Andrzej Wajda Retrospective presented at the Walter Reade Theater from October 17 – November 13 by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Polish Cultural Institute in association with the Polish Film Institute & the Polish National Film Archive. Special thanks to Monika Fabijanska, Agata Grenda, Lenka Panak, Anna Ziętara & Jola Lion (Polish Cultural Institute). All films are on video and in Polish with English subtitles.
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from October 24, 2008 to October 28, 2008