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Mountains at Dusk

dir. Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland 1970 / 27’

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

Maja Komorowska, Jerzy Kreczmar, Marek Perepeczko, Andrzej Zawada

Film description

An old professor and his former student start out climbing together. For one of them this is an annual ritual, a hommage to his friend and farewell to the mountains; for the other - a set up opportunity to get a job. The film was shot in the snowy Tatra Mountains which are the film's main subject - the persistent images make words irrelevant.

elaboration: Mirella Napolska