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Face to Face

dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland 1967 / 25’

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

Piotr Pawłowski, Justyna Kreczmarowa, Andrzej Zawada

Film description

Where does passivity turn into active negligence? One morning in the life of a middle-aged man faced with a dilemma: to help a fugitive or to protect his own safety and refrain from interfering in events seen through a window. Paradoxically, the moral dilemma is somehow enhanced by mixing it with trivial morning activities. Political allusions were traced in the film, so its premiere was delayed by a year.