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The Death of a Provincial

dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland 1965 / 28’

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

Władysław Jarema, Jerzy Jogałła

Film description

Graduation film. This film was desperate - Zanussi says. A story of glances exchanged by a renovator of church frescoes and an old monk. A confrontation of youth, vitality, self-confidence with humility, calm, consent to death. The film without dialogues, so subtle that it was recognised both by an ecumenical jury (Mannheim) and by the Soviet Atheists' Association (Moscow).