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Screening of ‘Generations’ (‘Pokolenia’) by Janusz Zaorski
20 March 2017, 7:00 pm–9:00 pm
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Location
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Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London, 2nd Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building, Gower Street , London WC1E 6BT
Organised with the Polish Cultural Institute as part
of their film festival 'Kinoteka' (15 March - 5 April 2017).
GENERATIONS
Director: Janusz Zaorski
Writer: Janusz Zaorski
Cast: Łukasz Jaczewski
Poland, 2016, 105 min
POLISH HISTORY IN FILM
Generations is a full-length docudrama made for the anniversary of Feature Film Studios (WFF). The Studio produced some four-hundred and fifty titles, and of those Zaorski selected the fragments of just under fifty to tell the story of contemporary Poland. The fragments of films, starting with Andrzej Wajda’s A Generation (1955) and on to the works of Chęciński, Has, Kutz, Polański and further still to Holland, Kieślowski, Marczewski, Zanussi, form a story about Poles from the times of the Nazi occupation, through to the period of Stalinist terror, the unfulfilled expectations of the Gierek Era, Martial Law and the elections of June 4th 1989.
Screening introduced and followed by a discussion on historical memory.
How to find the venue : http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/gustave-tuck-lt
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