daily life behing the Iron Curtain

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> 
> What do you think of cinema in Poland (or Russia and Eastern 
> Europe)? e.g. Wajda's films.
> 
> Ulhas
> 
The Russian cinema was avant garde in 1920s (cf. Eisentsein or Vertov)
when Hollywodd was a pile of dung (not that it is not now in a
figurative sense) - but then of course much of it was destroyed by
Stalin and his butchers.   Nonetheless, a few good things were made in
1960s and 1970s cf. I'm Cuba, Shadows of the forgotten ancestors or
Solaris - total anti-hollywood aesthetic and narrative.

Poland had a better luck - they had a good film school in Lodz.  I'm not
particularly in love with Wajda - I prefer Has (cf. Saragossa
Manuscript, Sanatorium under the Hourglass) or Kieslowski.  But I think
Polish cinematography, like Polish football, went down the drain after
1989.

Wojtek