''All Souls' Day'' or Hallowe'en is the English title for ''Zaduszki'', a film released in 1962, directed by the Polish film director
Tadeusz Konwicki.
Much like Konwicki's 1958 film ''
The Last Day of Summer'', ''All Souls' Day'' is a story of survivors and the lasting psychic damage of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. 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.
The film won the Special Jury Award at the
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (), often referred to by the German-language initialism IFFMH, is an annual film festival established in 1952 hosted jointly by the cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, the ...
in 1962.
Plot
Two young lovers, Wala (
Ewa Krzyzewska) and Michael (
Edmund Fetting), 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.
See also
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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.
A ...
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List of Polish language films
References
External links
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1962 films
1960s Polish-language films
1962 drama films
Polish drama films
Films set in Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship
KADR films
Films directed by Tadeusz Konwicki
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