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The Lady with the Ermine

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dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / Great Britain 1995 / 4’

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

Film description

A picture postcard from Cracow. The director himself is the city guide, and the culminating point - is Leonardo da Vinci's The Lady with the Ermine from the Czartoryski Museum collection. Zanussi tells the story of the model, who posed for The Lady… and of allegorical meaning of the animal she holds in her arms. About the initial background, later covered with black paint. He draws a comparison between Mona Lisa and The Lady… asking rhetorically which one is more beautiful.

elaboration: Mirella Napolska