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Holden

dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland 1962 / 10’

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

Cast

Paulo Jesus Gonsales, Piotr Dembiński,Stefan Friedmann

Film description

A feature study based on an excerpt from the famous novel The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome David Salinger. The plot is set in a small room of a school dormitory where the atmosphere is thick with emotions. The confrontation between roommates is somehow a manly fight and somehow a childish quarrel at the same time. The argument is not only about a girl, but about different attitudes towards life: idealism versus consumerism. Young Stefan Friedmann plays the outsider rather well.