May 7 - 8:45pm
Andrzej Wajda (1977) 165 mins M

Feisty & intense student Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) finds, in researching the life of inspirational 1950s bricklayer-hero Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), that she’s getting the run-around from official sources as to what really happened to her famous subject who disappeared years ago. Owing more than a little to the narrative framework of Citizen Kane, Wajda’s stinging critique of Stalinism marks a major contribution to Poland’s so-called “Cinema of Moral Concern” & is remarkable for its disturbing, far-reaching implications about truth, myth & the media.
Imported 35mm print of the new restoration courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa.
* Preceded by Kanal at 7.00pm.
* Screens as part of the Andrzej Wajda Season.