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Stanislaw Zaczyk Movies

1981  
 
This historical drama brings up the issue of how much time has to go by before the tragedies rising out of political conflicts are finally reported honestly and exposed for what they really were. A writer who fought in the Polish resistance movement has died and was never able to publish the truth about a massacre he witnessed during his lifetime. His diary, however, has the whole truth and it is given to a friend by the writer's widow. The friend realizes that the novel he weaves out of the threads provided by the diary will make him a towering literary figure in Poland, simply because the diary is so powerful itself. The only way to convey the story in the diary would be to write a fictionalized account that would make the truth clear to everyone without having to be too specific. As the friend interviews people who were alive at the time of the massacre, he comes to realize that any faithful account of the diary's contents is going to sensationally affect the perpetrators of the crime -- never even suspected until now. In the end, the friend must decide whether to sit down to write the story or not. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Jerzy Binczycki
 
1980  
 
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The 116 minutes of the Polish Beads of One Rosary passes rather quickly and pleasantly, even though the cast is comprised of nonprofessionals. The central character, played by Augustyn Halotta, is an elderly pensioner who must give up his small house to "progress." Halotta is offered a tiny apartment in a new high-rise, which he automatically refuses. Potentially a tragic tale of human suffering, Beads of One Rosary turns out to be a light comedy, blessed with a steady stream of eccentric characters. One leaves the film wanting to see more of the work of the obscure director Kazimierz Kutz. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Starring:
Ewa Wisniewska
 
1973  
 
The romance between two teens is threatened, in this Polish film, when their respective single parents decide to wed. The girl is moved to attempt suicide, and the young couple's prospects are not rosy. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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