''All Souls' Day'' is the English title for ''Zaduszki'', a
film
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released in
1962
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, directed by the
Polish
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film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
Tadeusz Konwicki
Tadeusz Konwicki (22 June 1926 – 7 January 2015) was a Polish writer and film director, as well as a member of the Polish Language Council.
Life
Konwicki was born in 1926 as the only son of Jadwiga Kieżun and Michał Konwicki in Nowa Wilejka, ...
.
Much like Konwicki's 1958 film ''
The Last Day of Summer'', ''All Souls' Day'' is a story of survivors and the lasting
psychic damage
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of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. In both films, the director embraces his position as a film amateur, self-consciously avoiding genre conventions. Unlike his earlier effort, however, ''All Souls' Day'' is driven by more conventional plot and dialogue elements that move beyond experimental filmmaking.
Two young lovers, Wala (
Ewa Krzyzewska) and Michael (
Edmund Fetting
Edmund Andrzej Fetting (10 November 1927, in Warsaw, Poland – 30 January 2001 there) was a Polish film and theatrical actor and occasional singer.
Fetting was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1980) and the Gold C ...
), travel to a provincial town to spend the weekend at a small hotel. Memories of the war and Wala's guilt in the wake of a previous lover's death hang in the air. While both Michael and Wala are starving for love, they cannot transcend their wartime experiences.
The film won the Special Jury Award at the
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (german: Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg), often referred to by the German-language initialism IFFMH, is an annual film festival established in 1952 hosted jointly by the citi ...
in 1962.
See also
*
Cinema of Poland
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations.
Af ...
*
List of Polish language films
There are two lists of Polish language films:
# Alphabetical by Polish title
# Alphabetical by title of English release
Alphabetical by Polish title
* ''Austeria''
* '' Bilans kwartalny''
* '' Człowiek na torze''
* '' Człowiek z Marmuru''
* ...
External links
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1962 films
1960s Polish-language films
1962 drama films
Polish drama films
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