- Farewells
Infobox Film | name =Farewells
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director =Wojciech Has
producer =
writer =Stanislaw Dygat Wojciech Has
starring =Tadeusz Janczar Maria Wachowiak
cinematography = Mieczysław Jahoda
music = Lucjan Kaszycki
editing =
distributor = Film Polski
released = 1958
runtime = 90 min
language = Polish
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imdb_id = 0052083"Farewells" (also titled "Lydia Ate the Apple" and "Partings" in the
United States ) is the English title for "Pożegnania", afilm released in 1958, directed byWojciech Has .The film is an adaptation of a highly lyrical and reflective
novel byStanislaw Dygat , with a screenplay written by Dygat and Has. Taking place in Poland during the late 1930s and early 40s, this melancholy film evokes the insecurity and despair pervading Poland at the time. The story begins immediately beforeWorld War II and centers on Pawel (Tadeusz Janczar ), a member of a conservative, bourgeois family, and his love for the thoroughly jaded Lidka (Maria Wachowiak ), a dancer. The mismatched pair finds momentary happiness during a trip to the countryside, however social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy them force Pawel and Lidka to part. The times change, war breaks out and ends; Pawel suffers atAuschwitz concentration camp and Lidka marries his cousin. Years later the two rediscover each other much changed, and find that they may still have the capacity for love.See also
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Cinema of Poland
*List of Polish language films External links
*imdb title|id=0052083|title=Farewells
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