The Second World War in Polish Cinema. Recent Filmic Approaches and the Reception in Poland and Germany Cover Image

Der Zweite Weltkrieg im polnischen Kino. Jüngste filmische Annäherungen und deren Rezeption in Polen und Deutschland
The Second World War in Polish Cinema. Recent Filmic Approaches and the Reception in Poland and Germany

Author(s): Elisa-Maria Hiemer
Subject(s): Media studies, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: contemporary Polish cinema; reception; Germany; Poland; Warsaw Uprising; Powstanie Warszawskie (film); Miasto 44 (film);

Summary/Abstract: Hiemer Elisa-Maria, Der Zweite Weltkrieg im polnischen Kino. Jüngste filmische Annäherungen und deren Rezeption in Polen und Deutschland (The Second World War in Polish Cinema. Recent Filmic Approaches and the Reception in Poland and Germany). “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” 12. Poznań 2017. Publishing House of the Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, pp. 123–138. ISSN 2084-3011. The article deals with the representations of history in contemporary Polish cinema. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, Jan Komasa released two fundamentally different films within one year. By an analysis focusing the context, the artistic product and the reception, the author intends to decode the different messages and reception offers. The intended reception is then contrasted to the real reception referring to the reactions in Polish and (in the case of Miasto 44) in German media.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 123-138
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: German