From "Twarzą w twarz" ("Face to Face") to "Kontrakt" (The Contract), or the reception of Polish television films by Krzysztof Zanussi from the period of the Polish People’s Republic. Cover Image

Od "Twarzą w twarz" do "Kontraktu", czyli recepcja polskiej twórczości telewizyjnej Krzysztofa Zanussiego z okresu PRL.
From "Twarzą w twarz" ("Face to Face") to "Kontrakt" (The Contract), or the reception of Polish television films by Krzysztof Zanussi from the period of the Polish People’s Republic.

Author(s): Marta Kasprzak
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Keywords: Krzysztof Zanussi; television film; Polish film; quality television
Summary/Abstract: Above all, Krzysztof Zanussi is known to Polish viewers as the author of popular cinema films such as The Structure of Crystal (1969), The Illumination (1972) and Camouflage (1976). However, it should be remembered that the director hasrepeatedly cooperated with television – both domestic and foreign. Nowadays, television films that fores hadowed the movement called cinema of moral concern, produced in Poland at the time of the Polish People’s Republic, are poorly present within film discourse. The aim of this article is to recreate (and compare witheach other) the former and contemporary reception of these films, discussed atdifferent intervals in popular or professional periodicals and, what is an increasingly frequent phenomenon, referenced in the Krzysztof Zanussi’s monographs.

  • Page Range: 209-224
  • Page Count: 16
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Language: Polish