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Cement and Words

dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland 1960

subtitles: no dialogs

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

Maria Przybylska, Wojciech Plewiński

Film description

I have dreamed of a psychological film about marital relations. It was made with a mute camera, with no sound recording. Hence the film is solely a registration of a mood - the dialog slipped away somehow. I have developed similar style in my later works, and from my point of view this film is objectively unimportant, yet subjectively it was something essential - Krzysztof Zanussi says about Cement and Words.