Szyfry (Has, 1966): Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm
This film is part of the Never on Snday season at Close-Up Cinema. Full details of past films here.
Close-Up Cinema introduction:
Championed for his intricate narratives and hypnotic imagery by people like Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, Luis Buñuel and Martin Scorsese, Wojciech Has uses a historical frame only to bend the notions of time and space. The result, Szyfry (The Codes), is one of the most complex Polish films about the moral dilemmas of Second World War. Made right after his international breakthrough, The Saragossa Manuscript, Szyfry
is about a Second World War veteran returning to Warsaw from his long
London exile to meet the wife and son he has left behind. His son, a
former member of the resistance, open his father's eyes to the fate of
the fourth member of their family, his disappeared brother, and the
inconvenient truth that he might have been a Nazi collaborator.
Featuring some of Has's most staggering dream/nightmare sequences, this
rarely seen gem is one of the essential films of Polish cinema of the
1960s.”
Ehsan Khoshbakht
Here (and above) is an extract.
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