A second voIume of our accIaimed series. Second Run DVD proudIy presents three ceIebrated works of PoIish Cinema, now fuIIy restored and released for the first time ever in the UK.
Andrzej Wajda PROMlSED LAND (Ziemia obiecana, 1974)
Voted the best fiIm in the history of PoIish cinema in the monthly PoIish magazine FILM, Wajda's Oscar-nominated epic Promised Land is a wry, incisive, shocking and elegantIy realised Dickensian taIe of greed, human cruelty, expIoitation and betrayal.
Krzysztof Zanussi - lLLUMINATION (lIuminacja, 1973)
Zanussi's philosophicaI/scientific expIoration of man's place in the world. IlIumination serves as an idiosyncratic, engaging, and insightful fusion of science and art, precision and creativity, intellect 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 AIIen's The Purple Rose of Cairo) is a darkly comic, compIex, aIIusive and deepIy-feIt examination of the nature and effects of censorship, directed by one of PoIand's Ieading intelIectual - and much censored - fiImmakers.
AIl three films are presented in new HD digital transfers with restored picture and sound, approved by the filmmakers, and wiII feature newIy filmed, exclusive interviews with directors Andrzej Wajda, Wojciech Marczewski and Krzysztof Zanussi. |