Shadow (1956 film)

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Shadow
Directed by	Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Starring	Zygmunt Kestowicz Adolf Chronicki
Release date(s)	1956
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Poland
Language	Polish

Shadow (Polish: Cień) is a 1956 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

The plot involves a Rashōmon-like investigation into the life of a man who has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland. In each account, the victim seems to have been a mysterious, ambiguous presence, of shifting loyalties and suspicious connections, who set himself against the powers that be.

Critics attacked the film for its depiction of a world rife with secret agents and hidden enemies—a favorite Stalinist theme— while the film seems, rather, to demonstrate how heroism and villainy are often matters of point-of-view and timing.

Cast

• Zygmunt Kestowicz as Knyszyn
• Adolf Chronicki as Karbowski
• Emil Karewicz as Jasiczka
• Ignacy Machowski as Shadow
• Tadeusz Jurasz as Mikula
• Boleslaw Plotnicki as Railwayman
• Bohdan Ejmont as Officer
• Marian Lacz as Stefan
• Zdzislaw Szymanski as Peasant
• Halina Przybylska as Village Woman
• Antoni Jurasz as Lt. Antoni
• Wieslaw Golas as Underground Soldier
• Barbara Polomska as Stefan's Friend
• Stanislaw Mikulski as Blonde
• Roman Klosowski as Witold

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish language films

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Shadow". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3680/year/1956.html. Retrieved 2009-02-02. 

External links

• Shadow at the Internet Movie Database