POWIDOKI · AFTERIMAGE | Black Box im Filmmuseum Düsseldorf

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POWIDOKI - AFTERIMAGE

PL 2016 - 98 min - OmeU - digitalDCP - ab 18 - R: Andrzej Wajda B: Andrzej Mularczyk - C: Paweł Edelman - D: Bogusław Linda, Bronislawa Zamachowska, Zofia Wichłacz, Andrzej Konopka, Krzysztof Pieczyński and others.

In the final years of an uncompromising artist's life, Andrzej Wajda unfolds a concentrated portrait of moral steadfastness under political pressure. In Poland in the late 1940s, the avant-garde painter and art theorist Władysław Strzemiński increasingly comes into conflict with Stalinist cultural policy, which elevates socialist realism to a binding norm. Because he refused to recant or adapt his aesthetic convictions, he was systematically ousted from public life: he lost his teaching position, his exhibition and work opportunities and ultimately all material security.

Wajda reconstructs this process of erasure soberly and without pathos, as a gradual withdrawal of visibility and dignity. At the same time, the relationship with his daughter becomes the emotional center of the film and lends the political repression a private, existential dimension. In clearly composed images, the film reflects Strzemiński's own theory of the "afterimage": Perception as something that persists even when the visible disappears.

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