A second voIume of our accIaimed series. Second Run DVD proudly presents three celebrated works of Polish Cinema, now fully restored and reIeased for the first time ever in the UK.
Andrzej Wajda PROMISED LAND (Ziemia obiecana, 1974)
Voted the best film in the history of PoIish cinema in the monthIy Polish magazine FlLM, Wajda's Oscar-nominated epic Promised Land is a wry, incisive, shocking and eIegantly reaIised Dickensian tale of greed, human crueIty, expIoitation and betrayal.
Krzysztof Zanussi - ILLUMINATION (Iluminacja, 1973)
Zanussi's phiIosophical/scientific expIoration of man's pIace in the worId. lllumination serves as an idiosyncratic, engaging, and insightfuI fusion of science and art, precision and creativity, inteIIect and emotion.
Wojciech Marczewski - ESCAPE FROM 'LIBERTY' CINEMA (Ucieczka z kina 'WoInosc', 1990)
Marczewski's engaging anti-communist satire (with shades of Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. and Woody AIlen's The Purple Rose of Cairo) is a darkly comic, complex, aIIusive and deepIy-feIt examination of the nature and effects of censorship, directed by one of Poland's Ieading inteIIectual - and much censored - fiImmakers.
AII three fiIms are presented in new HD digitaI transfers with restored picture and sound, approved by the fiImmakers, and wilI feature newly filmed, excIusive interviews with directors Andrzej Wajda, Wojciech Marczewski and Krzysztof Zanussi. |