I would also add the masterpieces he is most known for: "The Double Life of Veronique" and the trilogy, "Red", "White", and "Blue". Of these "White" is the most accessible, it stars a very young and luminous Julie Deply.
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It really moved me, although I don't agree with suggestion that movie is making: staying neutral is the worst choice you can make.
Especially in communist Poland it was probably best choice to avoid jail/torture/execution and shame of collaboration at the same time.
See that’s the thing with rhetoric. It’s easy to say from the safety of our modern lives. Or as my mom used to say: “It’s easy to shit when your butt is full”
Growing up in almost eastern europe (slovenia), you’d hear a lot of stories from ye olden days of what was and wasn’t said. What people did and didn’t do. At the end of the day, you can be all the hero you want, but the only thing that matters long-term is whether you got scooped up into the murder pits or not.
Objectively, neither side was that great. In the 60’s and 70’s we built memorials to fallen comrades bravely fighting the fascist oppressor. In the 90’s and 00’s we built memorials to the fallen souls bravely dying in communist murder pits during that same period. shrug
One other fun story from a relative who participated in a work action just after war building a railroad. It was pouring rain, and that day Tito came through to visit/peptalk. According to her, he said "Is it raining comrade?" to which she retorted "It is not raining comrade Tito, it is a sunny day!"
Till 1956? Yes. After? The regime was bad, but less violent like some of the modern dictatorships, for example current Putin's Russia. Low level activism could result in losing job, but not execution.
Imagine that perpetrators of Navalny poisoning were actually tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko
Unfortunately, it does not appear to have English subtitles on this site according to the icons (I cannot create an account to check at the moment). It does look like you can rent the film with subtitles quite cheaply from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Chance-English-Subtitled-Bogusl...
> All film materials presented on the 35mm.online platform meet the requirements of WCAG 2.0 - they have audio descriptions, transcriptions, subtitles in Polish and English, as well as comprehensive descriptions. For foreigners, the entire film library of the Platform is available in English.
So I assume that this one also has English subtitles. The icon below the film is only about the available audio language options.
Edit: Just double checked and yes, the English subtitles are available for this one (and all other films).