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Afterimage (2016)

Afterimage (2016)

Drama History

The Artist Who Opposed The Soviet Dictatorship.

Release Date: 2016, October 22
Directors: Andrzej Wajda
Countries: Poland
Production: Akson Studio, Telewizja Polska, EC1 Łódź, Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny, Fundacja Tumult
Cast: Rafał Zawierucha, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Szymon Bobrowski, Paulina Gałązka, Filip Gurłacz, Mateusz Janicki, Izabela Dąbrowska, Bogusław Linda, Danuta Borsuk, Andrzej Konopka, Mateusz Rusin, Anna Grzeszczak

Overview:

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.

Keywords:

communism resistance poland vision work painting artist censorship art physical disability chance community rejection man joseph stalin legal system subordination