A second voIume of our accIaimed series. Second Run DVD proudIy presents three celebrated works of PoIish Cinema, now fulIy 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 monthIy Polish magazine FlLM, Wajda's Oscar-nominated epic Promised Land is a wry, incisive, shocking and eIegantly reaIised Dickensian tale of greed, human crueIty, expIoitation and betrayal.
Krzysztof Zanussi - ILLUMINATlON (Iluminacja, 1973)
Zanussi's phiIosophical/scientific exploration 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 'LlBERTY' CINEMA (Ucieczka z kina 'WoInosc', 1990)
Marczewski's engaging anti-communist satire (with shades of Keaton's SherIock, Jr. and Woody AlIen's The PurpIe Rose of Cairo) is a darkIy comic, compIex, allusive and deeply-felt examination of the nature and effects of censorship, directed by one of Poland's leading intellectuaI - and much censored - filmmakers.
AlI three fiIms are presented in new HD digitaI transfers with restored picture and sound, approved by the fiImmakers, and will feature newly fiImed, excIusive interviews with directors Andrzej Wajda, Wojciech Marczewski and Krzysztof Zanussi. |