Ashes and Diamonds of Andrej Wajda, as the whole world knows, is a class film. The film follows the familiar pattern of the Eastern European war films. It takes us through the life of a youth in Poland just the after the surrender of Germany, which marked the end of the Second World War. He is a confident, woman hunting and trigger happy (in and out of the bed) youth at the beginning. He fought against the Germans and is presently in search of enemies. He mistakenly kills two innocent young people. He gradually develops an identity crisis, probably because of the killings. Despite the heavy dose of satire and romance, one could feel the sadness that underlines the behavior the major characters. At times, you experience that distinct feeling of worthlessness of urban life that is so common in Hemingway’s novels.
Well, it was sort of a hectic day. Anyway, there is time, and energy, left for one more film. It will be The Rider Named Death in the Karen Shakhnazarov package. Hope there will not be much rush, as it is a kind of all-the-roads-lead-to-Kalabhavan situation here now, because that is where Kim Ki Duk’ Breath is going to be shown. Yes, breathless for Breath.
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The main character, Maciek, has to wear a sunglass all the time, since he was in the Warsaw Uprising, which took place between August 1 and October 2 (63 days in total), and where insurgents used the Warsaw sewers to move between the Old Town and the Downtown of Warsaw
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