1958, 84 min Poland
Polish with English subtitles
Direction/Reżyseria
KAZIMIERZ KUTZ
Script/Scenariusz
JÓZEF HEN
Cinematography/Zdjęcia
JERZY WÓJCIK
Art Direction/Scenografia
ROMAN MANN
Music/Muzyka
ANDRZEJ MARKOWSKI
Editing/Montaż
HALINA NAWROCKA
Sound/Dźwięk
BOHDAN BIEŃKOWSKI
Produced by/Produkcja
KADR FILM STUDIO
Producer/ Producent
TOMASZ KARWAŃSKI
Cast/ Obsada
Jerzy Turek (Franek Socha)), Stanisław Milski Bartlomiej Kowal), Władysław Dewoyno (Soldier), Aleksander Fogiel (Busko), Bronisław Pawlik (Florczak), Andrzej May (Sypniewski), Henryk Hunko (Lieutenant), Grażyna Staniszewska (Joczysowa), Adolf Chronicki, Zbigniew Cybulski (Wiecek), Bodgan Baer (Barber), Zenon Burzyński (Priest), Jadwiga Hańska (Mother), Bohdana Majda (Petrakowa), Czesław Piaskowski (Windak)
Three novella films: “Cross” (awarded with a medal for his heroic deeds, a boy returns to his village on a short furlough after the war), “Dog” (the inhabitants of the land conquered by Germans, suffering from war trauma, consider the dog’s loyalty to be equal with Nazi fierceness and training) , “Widow” (the inhabitants of a surrealistic town located somewhere on the “Recovered Land” are striving to bring back stability and safety).
An attempt to address the issue of war in the most realistic aesthetics, devoid of symbols and metaphors. The mythology of the Polish School is reduced to the everyday awareness of a simple man and approached with bitter irony.
KAZIMIERZ KUTZ
Born in 1929 in Szopnienice (now part of Katowice). Film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the main representatives of the Polish Film School. Graduate of the Directing Department of National Film School in Łódź (1955). After finishing school, he worked as Andrzej Wajda’s assistant. .“Cross of Valor” (Krzyż Walecznych”,1959) was his debut film. Since then, he finished more than 20 pictures, including six about his home region – Silesia. He is also famous for directing theatre plays on some of the most prominent scenes of Poland, including the Teatr Stary in Cracow and National Theatre in Warsaw, as well as several plays for the Polish TV. In 1972, he founded the Silesia Film Company in Katowice and, until 1978, was its Artistic Director. In the 1970s he became the main director of the Polish TV branch in Katowice. After the Martial Law had been imposed in Poland in 1981 Kutz was interned by the communist authorities, but was released soon afterwards. Between 1981 and 1983, lectured in the Radio and Television Faculty at Silesian University in Katowice, and, between 1985 and 1991, taught directing at the Drama Academy in Cracow. Since 1987, was Principal Director in Polish TV Center in Katowice and, between 1990 and 1991, he headed the Centre. After the transition to democracy in 1989, Kutz became the head of the Polish TV branch in Cracow (until 1991). In 1997 he was awarded with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Opole. He is currently a promoter and patron of several Silesia-based cultural festivals and societies, also one of the supporters of development of the Silesian language. He is a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland. His films won him many awards in Poland and abroad.
Filmography
1997 Fame and Glory (Sława i chwała) – TV series
1995 Coloner Kwiatkowski (Pułkownik Kwiatkowski)
1994 Death Like a Slice of Bread (Śmierć jak kromka chleba)
1994 Reverted (Zawrócony)
1993 The Terrible Dream of Babyface Gorkiewicz (Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza)
1985 Brothers Will Come Soon (Wkrótce nadejdą bracia)
1983 I Will Stay You Guard (Na straży swej stać będę)
1979 The Beads of One Rosary (Paciorki jednego różańca)
1975 From Nowhere to Nowhere (Znikąd donikąd)
1974 Line (Linia)
1971 Pearl in the Crown (Perła w koronie)
1969 Salt of the Black Earth (Sól ziemi czarnej)
1967 Heist (Skok)
1966 Anyone Knows… (Ktokolwiek wie…)
1964 Heat (Upał)
1963 Silence (Milczenie)
1961 Tarpans (Tarpany)
1961 People from the Train (Ludzie z pociągu)
1960 Nobody Calls (Nikt nie woła)
1959 Cross of Valor (Krzyż Walecznych)
Gallery Theatre November 21 at 3:00 pm.
