Editorial

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Editors

Literary Issue

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Editors
Our first theme-related issue is dedicated to film adaptations.

Wojciech Has: The Silent Rebel

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Pau Bosch Santos
Pau Bosch Santos places some of Polish director Wojciech Has' artistic approaches in a biographical context.

Andrzej Wajda’s The Wedding (Wesele, 1973)

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Moritz Pfeifer
Moritz Pfeifer questions the political message behind Andrzej Wajda's The Wedding.

Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la fourrure, 2013)

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Julia Zelman
Julia Zelman discusses Polanski's interpretation of Sacher Masoch's novel and analyzes how the filmmaker's take on the female protagonist differs from that of the original.

Štefan Uher’s The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti, 1963)

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Nicholas Hudáč
Nicholas Hudáč examines how Štefan Uher adopts Czechoslovak identity in his pre-New Wave pic The Sun in a Net.

Wojchiech Jerzy Has’ The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, 1964)

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Pau Bosch Santos
Pau Bosch Santos shows how Wojciech Has manages to update Jan Potocki's master piece for his contemporaries.

Jan Jakub Kolski’s Pornography (Pornografia, 2003)

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Konstanty Kuzma
In his article on Jan Jakub Kolski's Pornography, Konstanty Kuzma claims that the filmmaker misunderstood the original work by Witold Gombrowicz.

Jerzy Antczak’s Nights & Days (Noce i dnie, 1975)

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Jack Page
Jack Page discusses Poland's Nights & Days, and analyzes, among other things, aspects of Antczak's Humanist agenda.

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe (Plemya, 2014)

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
In her review of The Tribe, Anastasia Eleftheriou pays special attention to the film's choreographic aspects.