Polish society in the 1970s was heading from a social movement to an even greater struggle. Polish filmmakers turned their focus to the lives of ordinary people living under an oppressive regime, living between the confines of ideals and reality. This period is commonly known as ‘Cinema of Moral Anxiety’.
1970年代的波蘭社會正從一場社會動盪走向另一場更大的抗爭，波蘭的電影工作者開始把鏡頭對準當下的社會，發掘政治高壓下，小人物面對理想與現實衝突的困境，這一波電影運動，被稱為「道德焦慮電影」。為求通過電檢，這個時期電影中對現實的批判往往以隱喻來呈現。這場運動，隨着1981年的軍法管治而結束，但孕育出奇斯洛夫斯基、賀蘭等上世紀八、九十年代名噪一時的大導演，對波蘭以至世界影壇影響深遠。
Interrogation (Przesłuchanie)《冷對千夫指》
Poland | 1982 | 117 min | Ryszard Bugajski
In Polish with English subtitles
Set immediately post-WWII, after a quarrel with her husband, small-time singer Antonina accepts a fan’s invitation to have a drink together and then gets drunk. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a prison cell and not knowing the reason. She faces countless interrogations each day and is forced to disclose her whole life. Antonina refuses to cooperate and witnesses all the absurdities of the prison system.
Guest Speaker of Post-screening Discussion
Dr. Andreas Leutzsch
Dr. Andreas Leutzsch is DAAD Visiting and Honorary Associate Professor for European Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of HKU. He obtained his PhD from Bielefeld University in 2007, where he was Fellow at the Institute for World Society and worked as Lecturer until 2012. He was awarded the A.SK Social Science Fellowship by the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) in 2007 and he taught as Visiting Professor at universities in Germany, Russia, Uzbekistan and the Netherlands.
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