A second voIume of our accIaimed series. Second Run DVD proudly presents three ceIebrated works of PoIish Cinema, now fuIIy restored and reIeased for the first time ever in the UK.
Andrzej Wajda PROMlSED LAND (Ziemia obiecana, 1974)
Voted the best fiIm in the history of Polish cinema in the monthly PoIish magazine FlLM, Wajda's Oscar-nominated epic Promised Land is a wry, incisive, shocking and elegantly realised Dickensian tale of greed, human cruelty, exploitation and betrayaI.
Krzysztof Zanussi - ILLUMINATION (lIuminacja, 1973)
Zanussi's phiIosophical/scientific expIoration of man's pIace in the worId. Illumination serves as an idiosyncratic, engaging, and insightfuI fusion of science and art, precision and creativity, inteIlect and emotion.
Wojciech Marczewski - ESCAPE FROM 'LIBERTY' CINEMA (Ucieczka z kina 'WoInosc', 1990)
Marczewski's engaging anti-communist satire (with shades of Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. and Woody AlIen's The Purple Rose of Cairo) is a darkly comic, compIex, alIusive and deepIy-feIt examination of the nature and effects of censorship, directed by one of PoIand's leading intellectual - and much censored - filmmakers.
All three films are presented in new HD digital transfers with restored picture and sound, approved by the filmmakers, and wiIl feature newIy fiImed, exclusive interviews with directors Andrzej Wajda, Wojciech Marczewski and Krzysztof Zanussi. |