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Tuesday, 2 November 2010
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Pod Baranami Cinema, Rynek Główny 27 |
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22:00 |
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Persepolis
Directed by: Marjane Satrapi
Production: France, USA, 2007
Introduction: Marjane Satrapi
A two-dimensional black and white animation was created on the basis of a comic book by Mariane Satrapi bearing the same title. Persepolis is a bitter yet moving story of growing up in Teheran in the times of the Islamic revolution. The main protagonist – Marjane – is a passionate reader of works by Marx and dreams of becoming a prophet. We meet her at the moment when fundamentalists come into power and force women to wear scarves and men to grow beards. We watch Iran through her eyes. The growing girl plays an intelligent game with “guardians of morality”, discovers punk music (which is prohibited in Iran), listens to ABBA and Iron Maiden. When persecutions become more intense and the Iran-Iraq war becomes more violent, Marjane is sent to a school in Austria by her caring parents. This film is a quiet pictorial story of growing up in the shade of religious fanatism, addressed to fans of comic books, animations and good films.
Tickets available at Kino Pod Baranami
10 PLN - reduced ticket
12 PLN - regular ticket |
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Wednesday, 3 November 2010
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Pod Baranami Cinema, Rynek Główny 27 |
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22:00 |
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Directed by: Wojciech Has
Production: Poland, 1964
Introduction: Rabih Alameddine
The screen version of the novel by Jan Potocki is a masterpiece of Polish cinematography. The film tells the story of a journey of a young captain of the guard of King of Spain, Alfons van Worden, through the dangerous Sierra Morena mountains to Madrid. On his way, the protagonist meets various people whom he tells his story, and they reciprocate by telling theirs. Alfons becomes a participant of incredible events; he is haunted by possessed and hanged people and the Inquisition. Eventually he finds a castle inhabited by a mysterious cabalist and listens to his strange ambiguous stories for many days… The amazing adventures of the protagonist finally turn out to be a great mystification, which was supposed only to check his honour and courage. The screen version of the novel prepared by Has is a fantastic and absorbing fairy tale similar to The Arabian Nights and a perfectly constructed “story within a story”. The version from 1964 was digitally restored under the “Kino RP” (Polish Cinema) project.
Tickets available at Pod Baranami Cinema
10 PLN - reduced ticket
12 PLN - regular ticket |
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Thursday, 4 November 2010
| Place |
Pod Baranami Cinema, Rynek Główny 27 |
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22:00 |
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Sobibor
Directed by: Claude Lanzmann
Production: France, 2001
The documentary film by Lanzmann contains a shocking picture of the camp reality in 1943. It is an unprecedented history of a rebellion and mass escape of prisoners of the annihilation camp in Sobibór, told in a manner which is characteristic only of the author of the famous Shoah. An essential part of the film is an interview with one of the few living co-organisers of the uprising in Sobibór. The impulse to make this documentary film arose already during work on Shoah, but this topic –as the director points out – did not match the architecture of the film being made at that time. Now the director has decided to resume the abandoned topic to continue his long-year haunting story about the experience of the Holocaust.
Tickets available at Pod Baranami Cinema
10 PLN - reduced ticket
12 PLN - regular ticket |
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Friday, 5 November 2010
| Place |
Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
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13:00 |
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Gespräch im Gebirg (Conversation in the Mountains)
Directed by: Matthias Caduff
Production: Germany, Switzerland, 2000
The film is an interesting illustration of Paul Celan’s short story under the same title. Its main subject is the planned meeting with Theodore Adorno, who took an active interest in the literary works of the author of The Fugue Of Death; however, this meeting never occurred. It was to take place in July 1959 in Engadin, where Paul Celan was on holiday with his family. The director reads The Dialogue In The Mountains penetratingly, sentence by sentence, and interprets it by referring to biographies and most important events in the poet’s life. This results in an absorbing experimental film essay about one of the most important 20th-century German poets.
Free entry |
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Sala „U Samurajów” Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie, Gmach Główny, al. 3. Maja 1 |
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22:00 |
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Anselm Kiefers Bücher (Books by Anselm Kiefer)
Directed by: Thomas Honickel
Production: Germany, 2008
The documentary film by Thomas Honickel focuses on the artistic works of Anselm Kiefer, who is one of the most popular contemporary German artists. Many works of this post-war artist are inspired by verses of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. In 2007, in Paris, during the exhibition Monumenta he presented a big display entitled “Falling Stars”, which was held at Grande Palais and was inspired by the reading of verses by Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. The film presents the artistic path of Kiefer, analyses literary traces in his selected works and shows how inexpressible experiences can be described in a poetic and melancholic way through the picture.
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| Place |
Pod Baranami Cinema, Rynek Główny 27 |
| Time |
22:00 |
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Werckmeister’s Harmonies
Directed by: Bela Tarr
Scenario: László Krasznahorkai, Bela Tarr
Production: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy. 2000
Introduction: László Krasznahorkai
Werckmeister Harmonies is a poetic story of a small town situated on the Hungarian Lowland during snowless winter and severe frosts. This desolate place is visited by someone who touches the frustration of local people with unprecedented intuition and shatters the harmony of the place where there is usually not much peace, anyway. The film by Béli Tarra is mystic, allegorical and metaphorical. It is characterised by a specific rhythm of the tale and long camera shots. The picture is supplemented by unusual music merging into a mysterious picture which sometimes resembles the climate of Tarkowski’s films.
Tickets available at Pod Baranami Cinema
10 PLN - reduced ticket
12 PLN - regular ticket |
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Saturday, 6 November 2010
| Place |
Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
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19:00 |
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Erst jenseits der Kastanien ist die Welt (Only There, Behind Chestnuts, Is The World)
Paul Celan 1920-1970
Directed by: Hilde Bechert, Klaus Dexel
Production: Germany, 1994
The subject of the film is Paul Celan’s life. The directors focus in particular on the times of the occupation in Czerniowce (Bukowina), where the future author of The Fugue Of Death was born in 1920 in a German-speaking Jewish family. They also carefully keep track of Celan’s further life after his arrival in Bucharest, Vienna and then Paris – the town where the life of the tragic witness of the German history ended in April 1970.
Free entry |
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Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
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20:00 |
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Der ich unter Menschen nicht leben kann. Auf den Spuren Ingeborg Bachmanns (This I cannot live among people. In the Footsteps of Ingeborg Bachmann)
Directed by: Peter Hamm
Production: Germany, 1980
The film by Peter Hamm is a portrait of Ingeborg Bachmann – an Austrian poet and great love of Paul Celan. This picture is much different from film biographies known from the television screen; it is an absolutely unique document. It gives credibility to two things connected with Ingeborg Bachmann – the fascination that has survived till now and the distance and alienation that have never been conquered. The film will serve as a perfect supplement to the correspondence between Bachmann and Celan, which will soon be published in Poland.
Free entry |
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Sunday, 7 November 2010
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Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
| Time |
17:00 |
| Description |
Karski’s Report
Directed by: Claude Lanzmann
Production: France, 2010
Introduction: Claude Lanzmann
Lanzmann’s documentary film is a polemic against Jan Karski by Yannick Haenel, which was one of the most widely discussed books in France in the autumn last year. Speaking about the activity of the famous Polish emissary, the author uses literary fiction in a dangerous way. The French issue of the book aroused strong controversies. One of the responses was Lanzmann’s film. It lasts almost 50 minutes and consists of fragments of the interview given by the Polish courier to the director in 1978 during the making of Shoah (1985) – a famous documentary film about the Holocaust. In that interview Karski tells about his meeting with the U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in July 1943 in Washington. The subject of this conversation was the war of the Polish Underground State against the Nazi invaders and the Annihilation of Jews which was taking place in Poland at that time. The aim of the director was to tell the story of the extermination of Jews. The film aroused much controversy in France and other countries and incited a hot debate in the press.
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Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
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20:00 |
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The Strawberry
Directed by: Werner Schroeter
Production: Germany, Austria, 1990
Introduction: Łukasz Musiał
The film of one of the leading directors of German cinema of the 1970s is a portrait of an emotionally unstable woman played by Isabelle Huppert. It is based on the novel Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, which is described as a great testimony to her relationship with Paul Celan. Schroeter’s film is a history of a woman for whom love is the most important essence of life. The protagonist of the only novel by Ingeborg Bachmann is a writer and lives in Vienna with a man called Malina. One day she meets Ivan, for whom she feels huge and unconditional love, but who is not able to reciprocate this feeling. Disappointed, she starts to experience states between sleep and reality. Malina makes unsuccessful attempts to get her out of the torpor and eventually – according to the author – commits a crime. This film is an amazingly told story which reflects the tragic relationship between Bachmann and Celan.
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Monday, 8 November 2010
| Place |
Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
| Time |
18:00 |
| Description |
Erst jenseits der Kastanien ist die Welt (Only there, behind chestnuts, is the world)
Paul Celan 1920-1970 - second show
The subject of the film is Paul Celan’s life. The directors focus in particular on the times of the occupation in Czerniowce (Bukowina), where the future author of The Fugue Of Death was born in 1920 in a German-speaking Jewish family. They also carefully keep track of Celan’s further life after his arrival in Bucharest, Vienna and then Paris – the town where the life of the tragic witness of the German history ended in April 1970.
Free entry |
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| Place |
Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
| Time |
19:00 |
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Im Süden meiner Stele (In the south of my soul)
Directed by: Frieder Schuller
Production: Germany, Romania, 1988
The film focuses on years spent by Paul Celan in Bucharest and the theatrical & literary environment of that city in years 1946-1947 and ends with the arrival of the poet in Vienna.
Free entry |
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Tuesday, 9 November 2010
| Place |
Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
| Time |
19:00 |
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Drei Wege zum See (Three roads to the lake)
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Production: Germany, Austria, 1976
Introdution: Anita Piotrowska
TV adaptation of Ingeborg Bachmann’s short story under the same title. In one of the interview, Haneke said that he had selected this text because he had felt a sort of personal identification with it, as in the case of other works that later became a basis for screenplays of his films. The main protagonist of the film and the short story is a well-known photographer who arrives for holiday to her family home in Carinthia. Personal mountain trips are a pretext for memories and reflections on her life until now.
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010
| Place |
Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
| Time |
19:00 |
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Anselm Kiefers Bücher (Books by Anselm Kiefer) - second show
The documentary film by Thomas Honickel focuses on the artistic works of Anselm Kiefer, who is one of the most popular contemporary German artists. Many works of this post-war artist are inspired by verses of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. In 2007, in Paris, during the exhibition Monumenta he presented a big display entitled “Falling Stars”, which was held at Grande Palais and was inspired by the reading of verses by Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. The film presents the artistic path of Kiefer, analyses literary traces in his selected works and shows how inexpressible experiences can be described in a poetic and melancholic way through the picture.
Free entry |
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| Place |
Sala „U Samurajów” National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3. Maja 1 |
| Time |
20:00 |
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Gespräch im Gebirg (Conversation in the Mountains) - second show
The film is an interesting illustration of Paul Celan’s short story under the same title. Its main subject is the planned meeting with Theodore Adorno, who took an active interest in the literary works of the author of The Fugue Of Death; however, this meeting never occurred. It was to take place in July 1959 in Engadin, where Paul Celan was on holiday with his family. The director reads The Dialogue In The Mountains penetratingly, sentence by sentence, and interprets it by referring to biographies and most important events in the poet’s life. This results in an absorbing experimental film essay about one of the most important 20th-century German poets.
Free entry |
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