Liczenie złotówek. Polskie filmy fantastyczno-przygodowe lat 80. w świetle protokołów komisji kolaudacyjnych
Counting Zlotys: Polish Fantasy-Adventure Films of the 1980s in the Light of Evaluation Committee Reports

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the evaluation committee’s reports regarding fantasy-and-adventure films in thelate period of the Polish People’s Republic. These documents show that the committee members oftenexhibited helplessness towards these films. They were not aware of the global cinematographic trendsto which these titles referred, and they admitted that they simply did not like such films. Despite this,they rated them highly and wanted to release them into theatres as soon as possible, because theythought such films could help to end the financial crisis in cinematography. I analyse these reportsas a document illustrating the change in the awareness of the evaluators. Not interested in politicalcontrol, they applied mechanisms straight from market reality to the films they watched. Discussionsabout films took place in terms of implementing liberalizing economic and cinematographic reforms.These discussions included production strategies taken straight from Hollywood studios, becausedecision-makers were primarily interested in reducing the financial risk associated with the films.Socialist ideology lost out to economic rationality.

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