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Time That Passed

Erloschene Zeiten

dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / West Germany 1987 / 60’

subtitles: Polish and English

retrospective: Krzysztof Zanussi A Plane from Budapest, Anxiety, Attestation, Behind the Wall, Camouflage, Cement and Words, Face to Face, Family Life, Girl and Uhlan, Hipothesis, Holden, Illumination, Imperative, In Full Gallop, Inventory, Krzysztof Zanussi – Essential Conversations, Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease, Long Conversation with a Bird, Mountains at Dusk, Persona non grata, Revisit, Spiral, Stop Thief, Students, The Balance, The Bluebeard, The Catamount Killing, The Constant Factor, The Contract, The Death of a Provincial, The Lady with the Ermine, The Lame Devil, The Power of Evil, The Role, The Roof, The Silent Touch, The Structure of Crystal, The Tram to Heaven, The Unapproachable, The Year of Quiet Sun, Time That Passed, Umbrella, Ways in the Night, Wherever You Are, With a Warm Heart, A Woman’s Business, Deceptive Charm Section index

Cast

Krzysztof Zanussi, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Maja Komorowska, Mathieu Carriere, Jan Biczycki, Marcus Vogelbacher

Film description

Para-documentary with autobiographic motifs. A story about the golden age of Vienna - a multinational, high-culture city where even maids wept when an opera star died. Zanussi-narrator stages dialogues with personalities of the turn of the 19^th and 20^th centuries (Alma Mahler or Siegmund Freud), reflecting on the reasons for the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the rise of fascism.