Ucieczka z kina Wolność : Escape from the Liberty Cinema /
Set just before Poland's communist regime came to an end, the central character is a movie censor, a tired, lonely man, whose wife has left him and who finds himself unable to control the situation when the actors of the film he is screening rebel and refuse to speak their lines. When someone n...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | Polish |
| Language Notes: | In Polish; with optional English subtitles. |
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[London] :
Second Run DVD,
[2013]
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| Edition: | Limited ed. |
| Series: | Polish cinema classics ;
v. 2 |
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| Summary: | Set just before Poland's communist regime came to an end, the central character is a movie censor, a tired, lonely man, whose wife has left him and who finds himself unable to control the situation when the actors of the film he is screening rebel and refuse to speak their lines. When someone notices the resemblence to Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo, they run that film but a mixup causes the American characters to enter the Polish film. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Booklet (19 pages ; ill.) with essay by film historian Michael Brooke inserted in container. Special features (25 min.) include a newly filmed, exclusive interview with director Wojciech Marczewski. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages ; 19 cm) |
| Format: | DVD; PAL, all regions; dual layer; aspect ratio: 16:9; original mono (restored). |
| Audience: | Rated: 15+. |
| Awards: | Polish Film Festival 1990: Best Actor (Janusz Gajos), Best Score, Critics Award (Wojciech Marczewski), Golden Lion (Wojciech Marczewski). Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival 1992: Grand Prize (Wojciech Marczewski). |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Jerzy Zieliński ; music, Zygmunt Konieczny ; editor, Elżabieta Kurkowska. |