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Wajda’s new feature shown in Gdynia

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Roberto Galea 24.09.2016 11:47
A new film by Poland’s veteran director Andrzej Wajda, 90, has had a special screening at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.
Andrzej Wajda during the event in Gdynia. Photo: PAP/Jan DzbanAndrzej Wajda during the event in Gdynia. Photo: PAP/Jan Dzban

Entitled Powidoki (Afterimage), it is the story of an outstanding visionary painter Władysław Strzemiński (1893-1952), an artist who refused to toe the communist party line during the Stalinist period and experienced the dramatic consequences of his choices.

Afterimage is an intimate record of the final years of the life of this pioneer of Polish avant-garde art.

Wajda’s film is to go on general release in Poland in January 2017. It stars one of Poland’s leading actors, Bogusław Linda, as the main protagonist.

Cinematography is by Paweł Edelman, whose credentials include Polański’s Oscar-winning The Pianist.

The Economist has described Afterimage as a poignant film. The weekly wrote in its latest issue: “Many thought [Wajda] had already made his last film, his Oscar-nominated masterpiece, Katyń, from 2007, about the wartime Soviet massacre of 20,000 Polish officers (one of whom was his father). They were wrong. Afterimage adds a powerful final note to a stellar career”. (mk/rg)

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