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The Role

Die Rolle

dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland, West Germany 1971 / 30’

subtitles: Polish and 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

Jan Kreczmar, Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Milewska, Jan Ciecierski

Film description

A TV project, the first co-produced film by Zanussi. The confrontation of career-focused youth and distanced wisdom of old age was shown in the relations between a father and his son. Sentiments aside - the visit the son, who is an actor, pays to his father whom he hasn't seen for years at a nursing home, has a hidden, voyeuristic purpose.

opracowanie: Mirella Napolska