- The Codes
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director =Wojciech Has
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writer =Andrzej Kijowski
starring =Jan Kreczmar Zbigniew Cybulski Irena Eichlerówna
cinematography =Mieczysław Jahoda
music =Krzysztof Penderecki
editing =
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released = 1966
runtime = 80 min
language = Polish
budget =
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imdb_id = 0061056"The Codes" is the English title for Szyfry, a Polish
film released in 1966, directed byWojciech Has .Tadeusz (
Jan Kreczmar ) is a Polish veteran ofWorld War II who fled toLondon at the end of the war, leaving behind his wife Zofia (Irena Eichlerówna ) and son, Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski ), who disappeared when he was 12 years old. Tadeusz returns toKraków to discover that Maciek is alive, his wife may have been a partisan and that his son may have turned in his own mother in to the authorities. During Maciek's struggle to understand his parents' history, questions of collaboration with theGestapo andHome Army retribution arise. Has pictures the mystical lost boy in a dark fairy-tale forest, full of the ghosts of the war and wholesale executions. The hypnotic quality of these excursions foreshadows the mesmerizing passages of Has's later film,The Hour-Glass Sanatorium .See also
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Cinema of Poland
*List of Polish language films External links
*imdb title|id=0061056|title=The Codes
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