Lack and overpresence – the image of the Polish experience of March '68 in Andrzej Wajda's films Everything for Sale and Layer Cake Cover Image

Brak i nadobecność. O obrazie polskiego doświadczenia Marca ’68 w filmach Andrzeja Wajdy
Lack and overpresence – the image of the Polish experience of March '68 in Andrzej Wajda's films Everything for Sale and Layer Cake

Author(s): Marta Bryś
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Wajda; Everything for Sale; Layer Cake; March '68; Film; Article; Anti-Semitism

Summary/Abstract: Marta Bryś analyses two films by Andrzej Wajda, both created in 1968: Everything for Sale and Layer Cake. According to the author, both productions are comments on the contemporary experiences of Polish society. Giving a detailed account of selected scenes and devices, Bryś points out that even though the films are very different, they contain traces of the dissolution of social bonds resulting from the mass emigration of Jews and the consequences of the government's usage of anti-Semitic rhetoric.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 126
  • Page Range: 32-40
  • Page Count: 9