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Attestation

dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland 1968 / 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

Aleksander Bardini, Daniel Olbrychski, Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska

Film description

A story about one afternoon. A professor of mathematics teaches a smart, rather insolent and desperate student an ironical lesson of life - the director's frequent motif of confronting callow youth with wisdom after maturity, but the student has nothing in common with the naive idealism of the later Zanussi-style characters.

elaboration: Mirella Napolska