Kino Polska

Kino Polska will screen two films by Andrzej Wajda: The story line of his masterpiece POPIÓL I DIAMENT (Ashes and Diamonds, Poland 1958, Sept. 22) unfolds between May 7 and 8, 1945. A resistance fighter is to murder a communist functionary. But he mistakes his victim with someone else and kills another man. "Within this classical unity of time and place, Wajda symbolically narrates the immediate postwar history as a continuation of the Polish tragedy." (Filmarchiv Austria) The film was highly acclaimed worldwide and made the leading actor Zbigniew Cybulski a star.