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Farewells(Pożegnania)

  • Dir: Wojciech Jerzy Has

  • Poland, 1958, Polish, 103mins, DCP

  • Cast: Maria Wachowiak, Tadeusz Janczar, Gustaw Holoubek

What seems like an ill-fated love story permeated with numerous farewells is a quintessentially Has’ tale of alienation, yearning, and loss, set before and after World War II. Drawn together by their mirrored personality, the spoiled bourgeois student and the fiercely intelligent-minded dancer are subsequently driven apart by social conventions and the winds of war. An ironic counterpoint to Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds , Has’ hero is neither adorned with revolutionary passion, nor redemptive love; unable to escape from his own shadow, he is but a one-man anthem for Polish doomed youth, an existential void that prevails over the future of a nation.

Locarno Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize

 

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.