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Anxiety

dir. Krzysztof Tchórzewski / Poland 2004 / 57’

subtitles: 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

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Film description

A film portrait of the director, co-founder of the cinema of moral anxiety. But the documentary's title refers not only to emotions raised by his work. I am worried about you, Maja Komorowska says in an archive recording of a TV interview - because of the terrible race inside you. Zanussi the director, but also lecturer, producer, philanthropist, polyglot, changing one plane for another, always speaking on a phone, seen with famous politicians, always supremely elegant. Why the hurry, risking the director of dissipating his talents?

The camera observes the director at his birthday party, while shooting Persona non grata, travelling, giving a lecture, at a charitable event. Words of Zanussi, his friends and collaborators are intertwined with excerpts of films and archive footage.