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12) Hubal (1973), dir. Bohdan Poręba
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14) The Last Ferry (1989), dir. Waldemar Krzystek
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Release date: August 19
Perhaps the most extreme example I can think of where a film’s theme tune is infinitely more famous than the film it was composed for.L.A. wrote:Mondo Digital’s review for the Blu-ray of The Devil in Maddalena (1971) directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Never heard of this before.
I think that was far more common in golden age Hollywood, right? "Green Dolphin Street" the tune is far more famous than the Lana Turner/Van Heflin vehicle, for instance. Not to take away anything from the popularity of Chi Mai and the relative obscurity of The Devil in Maddalena; just to say I think it fits handily into a long tradition.MichaelB wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:43 pmPerhaps the most extreme example I can think of where a film’s theme tune is infinitely more famous than the film it was composed for.
(Which I see is unsurprisingly acknowledged in the review’s first paragraph!)
Although it’s not really a Polish film, unless you normally slap that label on every Polanski or Borowczyk film regardless of where it was made.
Beaver.L.A. wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:26 pmMondo Digital’s review for the Blu-ray of The Devil in Maddalena (1971) directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Never heard of this before.
Path of Shame
dir. Mieczysław Krawicz, Alfred Niemirski
1929, 1 h 37 min
An international group of women traffickers is increasingly active in Poland. At a Warsaw dance school, they tempt young women with the possibility of being cast by an American film studio. What the gang doesn’t know is that among the students, there is a secret police agent.
Inspired by the Polish Committee for Combating Trafficking in Women and Children, the film is an adaptation of Antoni Marczyński’s novel. One of the first Polish interventional and socially engaged propaganda films, it combines an important issue with an action-packed storyline. Some of the scenes were shot in Gdynia.
At the 46th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, Tomasz Chyła Quintet will improvise during the screening of Path of Shame. It will not be a regular concert, but a musical spectacle based on modern experimental music arranged specifically for the Festival.
directed by: Mieczysław Krawicz, Alfred Niemirski
written by: Anatol Stern
director of photography: Albert Wywerka
production design: Józef Galewski
make-up: Konrad Narkiewicz
cast: Maria Malicka, Wanda Zawiszanka, Zofia Batycka, Maria Wrońska, Bogusław Samborski, Lech Owron, Jan Szymański, Seweryna Broniszówna, Władysław Walter, Jerzy Kobusz, Henryk Rzętkowski, Justyna Czartorzyska, Antoni Cwojdziński, Stanisław Sielański, Zygmunt Chmielewski, Leopold Morozowicz
production: Star-Film
production manager: Alfred Niemirski
You have Ga, Ga - Chwala bohaterom (1986) and Femina (1991) at 35mm.online. The registration is free.
I completely forgot to feed back on this! Terrific presentation (the live music from five multi-instrumentalists was especially effective) of what for the most part was a very engrossing drama, although hampered somewhat by the lack of any English translation in any form - which was unusual for Polish National Film Archive festival presentations, so I hope that that's not setting a precedent. But I'd certainly be interested in a Blu-ray with the same score.