A second volume of our acclaimed series. Second Run DVD proudly presents three ceIebrated 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 Polish 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 insightful fusion of science and art, precision and creativity, intelIect and emotion.
Wojciech Marczewski - ESCAPE FROM 'LlBERTY' ClNEMA (Ucieczka z kina 'Wolnosc', 1990)
Marczewski's engaging anti-communist satire (with shades of Keaton's SherIock, Jr. and Woody AIlen's The PurpIe Rose of Cairo) is a darkIy comic, compIex, allusive and deeply-felt examination of the nature and effects of censorship, directed by one of Poland's leading intellectuaI - and much censored - fiImmakers.
AIl three films are presented in new HD digital transfers with restored picture and sound, approved by the filmmakers, and wiIl feature newIy fiImed, exclusive interviews with directors Andrzej Wajda, Wojciech Marczewski and Krzysztof Zanussi. |