- Shadow (1956 film)
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Shadow Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz Starring Zygmunt Kestowicz
Adolf ChronickiRelease 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]
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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
References
- ^ "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
Films directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz The Village Mill · Celuloza · Under the Phrygian Star · Shadow · The Real End of the Great War · Night Train · Mother Joan of the Angels · Pharaoh · Gra · Maddalena · Death of a President · Encounter on the Atlantic · The Inn · The Hostage of Europe · Bronstein's Children · Why? · Quo VadisCinema of Poland
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