- Shadow (film)
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Cadillac Cien .Infobox Film
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director =Jerzy Kawalerowicz
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starring = Zygmunt Kestowicz
Adolf Chronicki
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released = 1956
runtime = 98 min.
country =Poland
language = Polish
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imdb_id = 0049077"Shadow" (Pl. "Cien") is a
1956 Polishfilm directed byJerzy Kawalerowicz .The plot consists of a "Rashōmon"-like investigation into the life of a man found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, policemen and a medical examiner begin to 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, the victim seems to have been a mysterious, ambiguous presence, of shifting loyalties and suspicious connections, who invariably set himself against the ruling powers of the time. Critics of the day attacked the film for its depiction of a world rife with secret agents and hidden enemies - a favoriteStalinist theme - yet the film seems rather to insist on how heroism or villainy are so often matters of point of view and timing.See also
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Cinema of Poland
*List of Polish language films External links
*imdb title|id=0049077|title=Shadow
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