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Polish films in South Korea

02.12.2020 14:47
A Polish Film Festival opens on Wednesday in the South Korean capital, Seoul. 
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
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The event gives a cross-section of the top achievements of Polish cinema from the late 1950s to the present day.

A total of 14 features will be screened, including films by such leading directors as Andrzej Wajda (Innocent Sorcerers, 1960); Jerzy Skolimowski (The Barrier, 1966); and Krzysztof Zanussi (Illumination, 1972).

Audiences will also be able to catch films by Wojciech Has (The Saragossa Manuscript, 1964; The Hour-Glass Sanatorium, 1973), and recent releases including Małgorzata Szumowska’s The Other Lamb from 2019.

A special place in the programme is given to the work of Jan Komasa, one of the country’s top younger filmmakers, whose Corpus Christi (2019) received an Oscar nomination in 2019.

The Polish Film Festival in Seoul runs until December 13.

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