Co się działo między Pragą a Warszawą
What Happened Between Prague and Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: The article is a review of Ewa Ciszewska’s book Sojusznicy z rozsądku. Polska i Czechosłowacja w projekcie socjalistycznego internacjonalizmu filmowego w okresie 1945-1970 [Allies of Convenience: Poland and Czechoslovakia in the Project of Socialist Film Internationalism in the Period 1945-1970] (2025). The author uncovers little-known or previously overlooked chapters in the history of Polish-Czechoslovak film relations. She also changes the way we look at such essential components of Polish cinema as its co-production capacities, film diplomacy, and the presence of Polish filmmaking in European circuits. Drawing on rich source materials, she maps the conditions that enabled Polish cinema – through the lens created by its collaboration with Czechoslovaks at Barrandov – to transform its peripheral status into the position of a key player in continental film culture. In her monograph, Ciszewska creatively refers to many theoretical and methodological concepts, such as festival studies and research on production culture, but her priority is to explore archival sources (both film and non-film), thus implementing the postulates specific to New Film History.

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