Rozliczenie bez katharsis. Demon Marcina Wrony a reprezentacje zbrodni w Jedwabnem
Reckoning without Catharsis: Demon by Marcin Wrona and the Jedwabne Pogrom
Author(s): Witold MrozekSubject(s): Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Polish cinema; Shoah; Jedwabne; Marcin Wrona; Tadeusz Słobodzianek;
Summary/Abstract: The article offers an analysis of Demon (2015) – a film by Marcin Wrona – from the comparative perspective of studies on Polish co-responsibility for crimes against Jews during and after WWII. Wrona’s film is placed in context of Polish documentaries addressing that issue: Birthplace (1992) by Paweł Łoziński, Where Is My Elder Son Cain? (1999) and Neighbors (2001) by Agnieszka Arnold, as well as feature films: Aftermath (2012) by Władysław Pasikowski and Ida (2013) by Paweł Pawlikowski, but above all – the most discussed and well-known drama text about the Jedwabne pogrom: Our Class (2014) by Tadeusz Słobodzianek. All these works are compared in terms of the narration, construction of the diegesis, and their political, historiosophical, psychological and moral reception.
Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 116
- Page Range: 22-36
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish