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City With No God

dir. Jacek Petrycki / Poland 2009 / 56’

subtitles: English

Polish Short Movies Competition 7109 km, A Tag, All Anna's Little Lies, An Idea, Blue, Canal, Charon Taxi, Chasm, Chemo, Chick, City With No God, Decalogue 89+ – the Seventh: Street Feeling, Different Story, Early Learning, Grandma Has Gone, Hands, Happy Jews, I Know Who Did It, Incantatio, Inventorium of Traces, Kids and Fish Have No Voice, Last Supper, Long Distance Runner, Long Live The Funeral!!!, Lucky, Meles Meles, Merry Christmas, Mother, Mr. F, Nowhere Blues, Observe the Sabbath and Keep It Holy, On Credit, Panta Rhei, Pause, Polish Film Novel, Pupeeds, Puppets, Rabbit a la Berlin, Scream, Sicilian Flea, Side Track, Six Weeks, Sleep-Walkers, Strawberry Fields, Szeol, The Actors, The Answer, The Bay, The Contract, The Day After Tomorrow, The Gravediggers, The Incident, The Lucky Ones, The Rest of the World, Vena cava, What the Doctors Say, Where the Sun Doesn't Rush, Yoko Ono's Cups Section index

Film description

Nowa Huta, a town constructed as a symbol of socialism, serves today as a poignant symbol of this system's decline. A history of a typical family from Nowa Huta and an attempt to understand the ideological problems they had to cope with every day. They have always relied on the Catholic Church. On the other side, there was the System with its mechanisms of propaganda, violence and corruption.