''The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober'' ( pl, Niezwykła podróż Baltazara Kobera) is a 1988 Polish film directed by

Wojciech Jerzy Has Wojciech Jerzy Has (1 April 1925, Kraków – 3 October 2000, Łódź) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer. Early life and studies Wojciech Jerzy Has was born in Kraków. Has himself was agnostic. However, his family ...

, starring Rafal Wieczynski,

Michael Lonsdale Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes named as Michel Lonsdale, was a French actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is best know ...

Adrianna Biedrzyńska Adrianna Biedrzyńska (born 30 March 1962, in Toruń, Poland) is a Polish actress. She performed in more than thirty films since 1983. She is best known for her performance as Anka in Decalogue IV. She works well in both dramatic and comedy ro ...

Gabriela Kownacka Gabriela Anna Kownacka (née Kwasz) (25 May 1952, Wrocław – 30 November 2010, Warsaw) was a Polish film and stage actress, best known for playing in the Polish TV series '' Rodzina zastępcza''. Kownacka was a Lutheran. She has starred in ove ...

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. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Frédérick Tristan that follows a young man as he travels across plague-stricken Germany of the 16th Century.

Plot

Young alchemy student Balthazar (Rafal Wieczynski) and his master (Michael Lonsdale) are forced to flee their home by the inquisition. They set off on a journey across a plague-stricken Germany, encountering various people including corrupt priests and Kabbalists, not to mention ghosts and even an angel, before ending up in Venice where Balthazar falls in love with a young actress. The film is Has's final film, and marks a return to the picaresque, extravagant style of ''

The Saragossa Manuscript ''The Manuscript Found in Saragossa'' (; also known in English as ''The Saragossa Manuscript'') is a frame-tale novel written in French at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries by the Polish author Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815). It is narrated ...

'' and ''

The Hourglass Sanatorium ''The Hourglass Sanatorium'' ( pl, Sanatorium pod klepsydrą) is a 1973 Polish surrealist film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Mieczysław Voit, Halina Kowalska and Gustaw Holoubek. It is also known as ''The ...

'' to which it can be seen as a part of a trilogy.Richardson, Michael ''Surrealism and Cinema'', p.169, 2006, Berg

Cast

* Rafal Wieczynski as Balthasar Kober *

as Le maître *

as Rosa *

as Gertrude / Gertruda *

as La mère *

Daniel Emilfork Daniel Emilfork (7 April 1924 – 17 October 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor who made his career in France. Biography Emilfork was born in San Felipe, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At a ...

as Le recteur * Jerzy Bończak as Flamand - Varlet *

Zofia Merle Zofia Merle (born 30 March 1938) is a Polish character actress. She has made over 75 appearances in film and television. She starred in the 1978 comedy film ''What Will You Do When You Catch Me?''. Filmography * 1961: ''Komedianty'' as Young Actr ...

as La matronne * Evelyne Dassas as L'aubergiste * Christine Laurent as Marguerite *

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as Le cardinal / Kardinal Nenni * Frédéric Leidgens as Battista Strozzi

Release

Released on December 26, 1988, the film was entered into the 1988

Polish Film Festival The Gdynia Film Festival (until 2011: Polish Film Festival, Polish: ''Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni'') is an annual film festival first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in Gdynia, Poland. It has taken place every year sinc ...

, where Janusz Rosól won the award for Best Sound. It was also nominated for the

Golden Lion The Golden Lion ( it, Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguishe ...

at the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

the same year, but did not win.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tribulations Of Balthazar Kober, The 1988 films Polish fantasy drama films 1980s Polish-language films Films directed by Wojciech Has Films based on French novels Films set in 16th-century Holy Roman Empire

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Cast

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