poland &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:poland @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:14:33 +0200 Sprawa Gorgonowej [The Gorgon Case] (Janusz Majewski, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-m5kf <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sprawa Gorgonowej [The Gorgon Case] (Janusz Majewski, 1977)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1931/div div class="img" Sprawa Gorgonowej (1977)/div div class="caption" Ewa Dałkowska as governess Rita Gorgonowa. DP: Zygmunt Samosiuk./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #JanuszMajewski #EwaDałkowska #AleksanderBardini #MariuszDmochowski #StanisławRadwan #ZygmuntSamosiuk #RitaGorgonowa #biography #crime #drama #Poland #1970s/div /section ]]>

Sprawa Gorgonowej [The Gorgon Case] (Janusz Majewski, 1977)

Dec

30

1931

Sprawa Gorgonowej (1977)

Ewa Dałkowska as governess Rita Gorgonowa. DP: Zygmunt Samosiuk.

#FilmDuJour #December #JanuszMajewski #EwaDałkowska #AleksanderBardini #MariuszDmochowski #StanisławRadwan #ZygmuntSamosiuk #RitaGorgonowa #biography #crime #drama #Poland #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-m5kf Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100 Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum] (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-66h4 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum] (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" winter solstice/div div class="img" Die Blechtrommel (1979).jpg)/div div class="caption" Little Oskar with his tin drum. DP: Igor Luther./div div class="txt" Something short for winter solstice. "He's growing! Look! See how he's growing! I have seen the Lord! The Lord! The Lord!" ### – Schugger-Leo On the eve of World War 2, little Oskar – just three years old – decides he doesn't want to grow anymore. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #WinterSolstice #solstice #VolkerSchlöndorff #GünterGrass #MarioAdorf #AngelaWinkler #DavidBennent #KatharinaThalbach #DanielOlbrychski #CharlesAznavour #ErnstJacobi #JeanClaudeCarrière #MauriceJarre #FriedrichMeyer #IgorLuther #drama #history #war #WW2 #Christmas #BookAdaptation #WestGermany #France #Poland #1970s/div /section ]]>

Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum] (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)

Dec

21

winter solstice

Die Blechtrommel (1979)

Little Oskar with his tin drum. DP: Igor Luther.

Something short for winter solstice.

“He's growing! Look! See how he's growing! I have seen the Lord! The Lord! The Lord!”

– Schugger-Leo

On the eve of World War 2, little Oskar – just three years old – decides he doesn't want to grow anymore.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #WinterSolstice #solstice #VolkerSchlöndorff #GünterGrass #MarioAdorf #AngelaWinkler #DavidBennent #KatharinaThalbach #DanielOlbrychski #CharlesAznavour #ErnstJacobi #JeanClaudeCarrière #MauriceJarre #FriedrichMeyer #IgorLuther #drama #history #war #WW2 #Christmas #BookAdaptation #WestGermany #France #Poland #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-66h4 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:15:00 +0100 Wojna Światów - Następne Stulecie [The War of the Worlds: Next Century] (Piotr... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-413g <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Wojna Światów - Następne Stulecie [The War of the Worlds: Next Century] (Piotr Szulkin, 1981)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="occasion" 1999/div div class="img" Wojna Światów - Następne Stulecie (1981)/div div class="caption" Reporter Iron Idem (Roman Wilhelmi) bringing the news. DP: Zygmunt Samosiuk./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #PiotrSzulkin #HGWells #RomanWilhelmi #JerzyMaksymiuk #JózefSkrzek #ZygmuntSamosiuk #BookAdaptation #SciFi #Poland #1980s/div /section ]]>

Wojna Światów – Następne Stulecie [The War of the Worlds: Next Century] (Piotr Szulkin, 1981)

Dec

18

1999

Wojna Światów - Następne Stulecie (1981)

Reporter Iron Idem (Roman Wilhelmi) bringing the news. DP: Zygmunt Samosiuk.

#FilmDuJour #December #PiotrSzulkin #HGWells #RomanWilhelmi #JerzyMaksymiuk #JózefSkrzek #ZygmuntSamosiuk #BookAdaptation #SciFi #Poland #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-413g Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Pasażerka [Passenger] (Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz + Andrzej Brzozowski,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pyqj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Pasażerka [Passenger] (Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz + Andrzej Brzozowski, 1963)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" cruise/div div class="img" Pasażerka (1963).jpg)/div div class="caption" Marta and Liza on the cruise ship (via). DP: Krzysztof Winiewicz./div div class="txt" On a cruise, from [OP] Cinn’s bucket list. Well, not in the context of today's film pick &nbsp; 1960. On a luxury line, former prisoner Marta and her warden Liza meet again. Things had happened years before, in Auschwitz. This new confrontation reverses their roles. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #cruise #CruiseShips #AndrzejMunk #WitoldLesiewicz #AndrzejBrzozowski #AleksandraŚląska #AnnaCiepielewska #JanuszBylczyński #KrzesislawaDubielówna #AnnaGołębiowska #KrzysztofWiniewicz #TadeuszBaird #WW2 #drama #Holocaust #AuschwitzBirkenau #Poland #1960s/div /section ]]>

Pasażerka [Passenger] (Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz + Andrzej Brzozowski, 1963)

Dec

9

cruise

Pasażerka (1963)

Marta and Liza on the cruise ship (via). DP: Krzysztof Winiewicz.

On a cruise, from [OP] Cinn’s bucket list. Well, not in the context of today's film pick*

 

1960. On a luxury line, former prisoner Marta and her warden Liza meet again. Things had happened years before, in Auschwitz. This new confrontation reverses their roles.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #cruise #CruiseShips #AndrzejMunk #WitoldLesiewicz #AndrzejBrzozowski #AleksandraŚląska #AnnaCiepielewska #JanuszBylczyński #KrzesislawaDubielówna #AnnaGołębiowska #KrzysztofWiniewicz #TadeuszBaird #WW2 #drama #Holocaust #AuschwitzBirkenau #Poland #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pyqj Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0100 Na wylot [Through and Through] (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-h02l <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Na wylot [Through and Through] (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1972)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="occasion" 1933/div div class="img" Na wylot (1972)/div div class="caption" Maria (Anna Nieborowska) and Jan (Franciszek Trzeciak) in court. The film is based on the 1933 Jan and Maria Malisz’s Case. DP: Bogdan Dziworski./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #November #GrzegorzKrólikiewicz #FranciszekTrzeciak #AnnaNieborowska #JanuszHajdun #HenrykKuźniak #BogdanDziworski #romance #SlowCinema #drama #crime #biography #Poland #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Na wylot [Through and Through] (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1972)

Nov

4

1933

Na wylot (1972)

Maria (Anna Nieborowska) and Jan (Franciszek Trzeciak) in court. The film is based on the 1933 Jan and Maria Malisz’s Case. DP: Bogdan Dziworski.

#FilmDuJour #November #GrzegorzKrólikiewicz #FranciszekTrzeciak #AnnaNieborowska #JanuszHajdun #HenrykKuźniak #BogdanDziworski #romance #SlowCinema #drama #crime #biography #Poland #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-h02l Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Śledztwo [The Investigation] (Marek Piestrak, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/sledztwo-1974 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Śledztwo [The Investigation] (Marek Piestrak, 1974)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Śledztwo (1974)/div div class="caption" A person offscreen shoots a handgun. DP: Edward Kłosiński./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #MarekPiestrak #StanisławLem #TadeuszBorowski #WłodzimierzNahorny #EdwardKłosiński #TVMovie #crime #BookAdaptation #Poland #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Śledztwo [The Investigation] (Marek Piestrak, 1974)

Oct

28

Śledztwo (1974)

A person offscreen shoots a handgun. DP: Edward Kłosiński.

#FilmDuJour #October #MarekPiestrak #StanisławLem #TadeuszBorowski #WłodzimierzNahorny #EdwardKłosiński #TVMovie #crime #BookAdaptation #Poland #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/sledztwo-1974 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Medium (Jacek Koprowicz, 1985) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/medium-1985 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Medium (Jacek Koprowicz, 1985)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Medium (1985)/div div class="caption" A man in an impeccable, light-colored suit. His nose is bleeding. DPs: Jerzy Zieliński & Wit Dąbal./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #JacekKoprowicz #WładysławKowalski #MichalBajor #JerzyZelnik #KrzesimirDębski #JerzyZieliński #WitDąbal #horror #TVMovie #Poland #WestGermany #1980s ★★½/div /section ]]>

Medium (Jacek Koprowicz, 1985)

Oct

2

Medium (1985)

A man in an impeccable, light-colored suit. His nose is bleeding. DPs: Jerzy Zieliński & Wit Dąbal.

#FilmDuJour #October #JacekKoprowicz #WładysławKowalski #MichalBajor #JerzyZelnik #KrzesimirDębski #JerzyZieliński #WitDąbal #horror #TVMovie #Poland #WestGermany #1980s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/medium-1985 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Wśród nocnej ciszy [Quiet Is the Night] (Tadeusz Chmielewski, 1978) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/wsrod-nocnej-ciszy-1978 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Wśród nocnej ciszy [Quiet Is the Night] (Tadeusz Chmielewski, 1978)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Wśród nocnej ciszy (1978)/div div class="caption" A young student sits on the ledge of a barge, looking up at another man. DP: Jerzy Szurowski./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #TadeuszChmielewski #TomaszZaliwski #PiotrŁysak #JerzyMatuszkiewicz #JerzySzurowski #crime #SerialKillers #Christmas #ChristmasMovie #Poland #1970s ★★½/div /section ]]>

Wśród nocnej ciszy [Quiet Is the Night] (Tadeusz Chmielewski, 1978)

Sep

14

Wśród nocnej ciszy (1978)

A young student sits on the ledge of a barge, looking up at another man. DP: Jerzy Szurowski.

#FilmDuJour #September #TadeuszChmielewski #TomaszZaliwski #PiotrŁysak #JerzyMatuszkiewicz #JerzySzurowski #crime #SerialKillers #Christmas #ChristmasMovie #Poland #1970s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/wsrod-nocnej-ciszy-1978 Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Czułe miejsca [Tender Spots] (Piotr Andrejew, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-s61z <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Czułe miejsca [Tender Spots] (Piotr Andrejew, 1981)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 1998/div div class="img" Czułe miejsca (1981).png)/div div class="caption" Janek (Michał Juszczakiewicz) and Ewa (Hanna Dunowska) in embrace on a bed. DPs: Jerzy Zieliński & Ryszard Lenczewski./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #PiotrAndrejew #MichałJuszczakiewicz #HannaDunowska #KrzysztofWodziński #JerzyZieliński #RyszardLenczewski #drama #satire #SciFi #dystopia #Poland #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Czułe miejsca [Tender Spots] (Piotr Andrejew, 1981)

Aug

28

1998

Czułe miejsca (1981)

Janek (Michał Juszczakiewicz) and Ewa (Hanna Dunowska) in embrace on a bed. DPs: Jerzy Zieliński & Ryszard Lenczewski.

#FilmDuJour #August #PiotrAndrejew #MichałJuszczakiewicz #HannaDunowska #KrzysztofWodziński #JerzyZieliński #RyszardLenczewski #drama #satire #SciFi #dystopia #Poland #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-s61z Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200 Trois couleurs: Bleu [Three Colors: Blue] (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g5cc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Trois couleurs: Bleu [Three Colors: Blue] (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" cerulean/div div class="img" Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)/div div class="caption" Julie (Juliette Binoche) in a blue wallpapered room, observes blue beads suspended in front of a window with a cerulean sky and ocean behind it. Throughout the story, her clothing changes from white, to black, to the darkest charcoal blue, to Prussian blue. DP: Slawomir Idziak./div div class="txt" Cerulean, or blue: in food or fashion "I'm just fine. I have everything here. I have the TV. You can see the whole world" ### – the mother How could I not pick at least one instalment of Kieślowski's Trois couleurs trilogy. Here's blue, the liberté of the tricolor. Blue occurs as the sky to fall through, the room without life, and the cloth that binds. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #blue #colours #KrzysztofKieślowski #JulietteBinoche #BenoîtRégent #FlorencePernel #ZbigniewPreisner #SlawomirIdziak #romance #drama #trilogy #TroisCouleurs #TrzyKolory #Paris #France #Poland #Switzerland #1990s/div /section ]]>

Trois couleurs: Bleu [Three Colors: Blue] (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

Aug

15

cerulean

Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)

Julie (Juliette Binoche) in a blue wallpapered room, observes blue beads suspended in front of a window with a cerulean sky and ocean behind it. Throughout the story, her clothing changes from white, to black, to the darkest charcoal blue, to Prussian blue. DP: Slawomir Idziak.

Cerulean, or blue: in food or fashion*

“I'm just fine. I have everything here. I have the TV. You can see the whole world”

– the mother

How could I not pick at least one instalment of Kieślowski's Trois couleurs trilogy. Here's blue, the liberté of the tricolor. Blue occurs as the sky to fall through, the room without life, and the cloth that binds.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #blue #colours #KrzysztofKieślowski #JulietteBinoche #BenoîtRégent #FlorencePernel #ZbigniewPreisner #SlawomirIdziak #romance #drama #trilogy #TroisCouleurs #TrzyKolory #Paris #France #Poland #Switzerland #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g5cc Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +0200