Polish Student Alliance
in Pittsburgh, PA
invites you to the
2nd POLISH MOVIE NIGHT
(free)
Movie of the week: Rejs
When? February 9th (Thursday) 7:30PM-9:00PM
Where? 4130 Posvar Hall (University of Pittsburgh)
Movie genre: Comedy
Year: 1970 Duration: 1 hour, 0 minutes Other: Black&white, Polish with English subtitles
Directed by Marek Piwowski. Starring Stanislaw Tym.
Rejs (The Cruise) is the mother of all cult films in Polish cinematography. Shot in a quasi-documentary style, with a cast featuring few professional actors, it is a perfect parody of the People's Republic of Poland, reducing a weekend river cruise to a hilarious parody of the entire communist system.
A stowaway (Stanisław Tym) sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator (KO) and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
To be followed:
February 23 (Ogniem i Mieczem, Part 1 of 2) (1999)
March 16 (Ogniem i Mieczem, Part 2 of 2) (1999)
Room opens at 7:00 p.m, so if you want to practice your Polish, feel free to arrive early and talk with us!
TTags: University of Pittsburgh
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