{"id":4396,"date":"2021-08-03T17:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2022-09-23T07:45:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:45:58","slug":"munk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/08\/03\/munk\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Retrospective of Andrzej Munk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Announcing a Virtual Retrospective of Renowned Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Munk<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>August 20\u2013September 10<\/strong><br><em>Film at Lincoln Center<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are now available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/virtual.filmlinc.org\/page\/andrzej-munk-retrospective\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are $5. A discounted All-Access Pass will also be available for $20.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmlinc.org\/membership\/\">FLC members<\/a>&nbsp;receive an additional 20% discount on all film rentals and pass purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute. Organized by Tyler Wilson and Tomek Smolarski (Polish Cultural Institute New York).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) announces a virtual retrospective of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Munk, showcasing seven pivotal films, all newly restored, that bring his cinematic contributions into sharper focus. The series kicks off August 20 in the FLC Virtual Cinema.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considered one of the founders of the Polish Film School movement, along with Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Andrzej&nbsp;Munk began his career making agitprop documentaries in the era of Stalinized Poland, and, in the aftermath of the 1956 Polish thaw, came to artistic maturity with a suite of shrewdly incendiary features. Although his career was brief\u2014he died in a car accident in 1961, during the making of his final feature,&nbsp;Passenger\u2014the films made by Munk throughout the \u201950s have come to encapsulate the spirit of rebellion in postwar Poland. These works bristled with cool skepticism, and indefatigable elements of satire and irony that evaded state censorship guidelines; many explored the perverse survival instincts and displacement arising from war, while others witnessed the hardship and beauty of everyday labor.&nbsp;<br><br>Munk received a posthumous award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival recognizing his entire oeuvre, and his influence persists, visible in the work of renowned Polish filmmakers such as Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, and Jerzy Skolimowski, Munk\u2019s former student.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>FILMS &amp; DESCRIPTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/jojud265nia2bj9sy4ah9b61-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Men-of-Blue-Cross-2-1-min.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-599945\"><em>Men of Blue Cross<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Men of the Blue Cross \/ B\u0142\u0119kitny krzy\u017c<br><\/strong><strong>Poland, 1955, 56m<br><\/strong><strong>Polish with English subtitles<br><\/strong>By the mid-1950s, Munk began to make what he referred to as \u201cdramatized documentaries,\u201d in which he took greater liberties with staging and nonprofessional actors. In&nbsp;<em>The Men of the Blue Cross<\/em>, considered by some to be his first overtly fictionalized film, actual mountaineers reenact a rescue mission they had carried out in the Tatra Mountains during World War II. Roughly 10 years after the fact, Munk dabbled in the visual compositions of a genre film to recreate some of the rescuers\u2019 most dramatic memories\u2014including their escape from an avalanche and a shootout with German soldiers\u2014using a combination of intricately lit spaces and verit\u00e9, on-location cinematography.&nbsp;<strong>Restoration by Fixafilm.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Screening with:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jojud265nia2bj9sy4ah9b61-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Destination-%E2%80%93-Nowa-Huta_1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-599994\"><em>Destination<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Destination \u2013 Nowa Huta! \/ Kierunek \u2013 Nowa Huta!<br>Poland, 1951, 13m<br>Polish with English subtitles<br><\/strong>In this deceptively chipper piece of agitprop, a narrator details the laborious construction of Nowa Huta, a utopian city built as one of the few monuments to Poland\u2019s fellowship with the Soviet Union.&nbsp;<strong>Restoration by Warsaw Documentary Film Studio (WFDiF).&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/jojud265nia2bj9sy4ah9b61-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Man-on-the-Tracks-3-1-min.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-599950\"><em>Man on the Tracks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Man on the Tracks \/ Cz\u0142owiek na torze<br>Poland, 1957, 82m<br>Polish with English subtitles<br><\/strong>A provocative examination of party-line deviation and coercion in Stalinized Poland,&nbsp;<em>Man on the Tracks<\/em>&nbsp;takes place in the aftermath of a locomotive driver\u2019s ostensible suicide, and centers on an investigation of the deceased, Orzechowski, whose questionable political orientation makes him the prime suspect in a railway sabotage case. In the first of Munk\u2019s many collaborations with the writer Jerzy Stefan Stawi\u0144ski (who also penned Wajda\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Kana\u0142<\/em>), a mystery unfolds through a&nbsp;<em>Rashomon<\/em>-style structure, with Orzechowski\u2019s bosses and assistants rendering their impressions of him and the events leading to his demise via extended flashbacks. Absent any music, the film sustains a grim, skittish atmosphere with the sounds of whistles, alarms, and pistons that punctuate its laconic dialogue and austere compositions.&nbsp;<strong>Restoration by The Chimney Pot and Soundplace.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/jojud265nia2bj9sy4ah9b61-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Eroica-1-F-279-27-1-min.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-599903\"><em>Eroica<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eroica<br>Poland, 1957, 80m<br>Polish with English subtitles<br><\/strong>Munk\u2019s international breakthrough film represented a formative leap in the director\u2019s style and tone. Based on two short stories by frequent collaborator Jerzy Stefan Stawi\u0144ski, this&nbsp;diptych snaps from comedy to tragedy to deconstruct notions of Polish heroism in World War II. The first episode, a sharply pointed farce titled \u201cScherzo alla Polacca,\u201d follows a quixotic bon vivant after he deserts Poland\u2019s underground resistance to avoid the Warsaw Uprising. The far more despairing narrative \u201cOstinato Lugubre\u201d involves a group of Polish POWs and one soldier\u2019s hopeless attempt at escape. Munk\u2019s wartime symphony is steeped in humor, yet fully aware of the dark visions of war and its horrors, particularly the nationalistic mores impressed on societies.&nbsp;<strong>Restoration by The Chimney Pot and Toya Studios.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/jojud265nia2bj9sy4ah9b61-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bad-Luck-10-1-min.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-599955\"><em>Bad Luck<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bad Luck \/ Zezowate szcz\u0119\u015bcie<br>Poland, 1960, 109m<br>Polish with English subtitles<br><\/strong>A withering satire on the tactics of opportunism in early-20th-century Poland, Munk\u2019s penultimate film shows the director at his most simultaneously acerbic and controlled. Bugumi\u0142 Kobiela (<em>Ashes and Diamonds<\/em>) stars as Piszczyk, an \u201cunlucky\u201d Pole who looks back on the various crises of his life to protest his release from a communist prison. Munk once again turns to the flashback strategy to unveil his protagonist\u2019s unscrupulous survival instincts that perpetually, and hilariously, backfire. Blisteringly subversive and wonderfully idiosyncratic,&nbsp;<em>Bad Luck<\/em>is something like a Witold Gombrowicz novel translated by Charlie Chaplin.&nbsp;<strong>Restoration by Fixafilm.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/jojud265nia2bj9sy4ah9b61-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Passenger-1-1-min.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-599912\"><em>Passenger<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Passenger \/ Pasa\u017cerka<br><\/strong><strong>Poland, 1961-63, 59m<br><\/strong><strong>Polish with English subtitles<br><\/strong>Incomplete at the time of Munk\u2019s death in 1961,&nbsp;<em>Passenger<\/em>&nbsp;takes as its focus the harrowing relationship between two women in a German concentration camp, as recalled by a former guard after she encounters, years later aboard a luxury cruise ship, one of her Polish ex-prisoners. Working from footage shot just before his fatal accident, Munk\u2019s collaborators (notably director Witold Lesiewicz and writer Wiktor Woroszylski) constructed a speculative version of the film, partially made up of still shots. The film is as much a profoundly disturbing comment on trauma, memory, and freedom as it is an intriguing experiment, permeated by an unmistakable sense of admiration from the late filmmaker\u2019s contemporaries. A NYFF2 selection.&nbsp;<strong>Restoration by DI Factory.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Screening with:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jojud265nia2bj9sy4ah9b61-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Walk-through-Warsaw-3-1-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-599940\"><em>A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw \/ Spacerek staromiejski<br><\/strong><strong>Poland, 1958, 18m<br><\/strong>In this vibrant collaboration with the composer Andrzej Markowski, a young music student wanders around the alleys and buildings of Warsaw\u2019s Old Town. Without any dialogue, Munk creates an eccentric atmosphere by fusing Markowski\u2019s instrumentation with the ordinary sounds of the city.&nbsp;<strong>Restoration by Warsaw Documentary Film Studio (WFDiF).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledgements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ewa Muli\u0107 and Marika Cie\u015blik, Warsaw Documentary Film Studio (WFDiF); The Chimney Pot; DI Factory; Fixafilm; Soundplace; Toya Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing a Virtual Retrospective of Renowned Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Munk August 20\u2013September 10Film at Lincoln Center Tickets are now available here. Tickets are $5. A discounted All-Access Pass will also be available for $20.&nbsp;FLC members&nbsp;receive an additional 20% discount on all film rentals and pass purchases. 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A discounted All-Access Pass will also be available for $20. FLC members receive an additional 20% discount on all film rentals and pass purchases.\\nPresented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute. Organized by Tyler Wilson and Tomek Smolarski (Polish Cultural Institute New York).\\nFilm at Lincoln Center (FLC) announces a virtual retrospective of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Munk, showcasing seven pivotal films, all newly restored, that bring his cinematic contributions into sharper focus. The series kicks off August 20 in the FLC Virtual Cinema. \\nConsidered one of the founders of the Polish Film School movement, along with Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Andrzej Munk began his career making agitprop documentaries in the era of Stalinized Poland, and, in the aftermath of the 1956 Polish thaw, came to artistic maturity with a suite of shrewdly incendiary features. Although his career was brief\u2014he died in a car accident in 1961, during the making of his final feature, Passenger\u2014the films made by Munk throughout the \u201950s have come to encapsulate the spirit of rebellion in postwar Poland. These works bristled with cool skepticism, and indefatigable elements of satire and irony that evaded state censorship guidelines; many explored the perverse survival instincts and displacement arising from war, while others witnessed the hardship and beauty of everyday labor. Munk received a posthumous award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival recognizing his entire oeuvre, and his influence persists, visible in the work of renowned Polish filmmakers such as Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, and Jerzy Skolimowski, Munk\u2019s former student. \\nFILMS &amp; DESCRIPTIONS\\nMen of Blue Cross\\nThe Men of the Blue Cross \/ B\u0142\u0119kitny krzy\u017cPoland, 1955, 56mPolish with English subtitlesBy the mid-1950s, Munk began to make what he referred to as \u201cdramatized documentaries,\u201d in which he took greater liberties with staging and nonprofessional actors. In The Men of the Blue Cross, considered by some to be his first overtly fictionalized film, actual mountaineers reenact a rescue mission they had carried out in the Tatra Mountains during World War II. Roughly 10 years after the fact, Munk dabbled in the visual compositions of a genre film to recreate some of the rescuers\u2019 most dramatic memories\u2014including their escape from an avalanche and a shootout with German soldiers\u2014using a combination of intricately lit spaces and verit\u00e9, on-location cinematography. Restoration by Fixafilm. \\nScreening with:\\nDestination\\nDestination \u2013 Nowa Huta! \/ Kierunek \u2013 Nowa Huta!Poland, 1951, 13mPolish with English subtitlesIn this deceptively chipper piece of agitprop, a narrator details the laborious construction of Nowa Huta, a utopian city built as one of the few monuments to Poland\u2019s fellowship with the Soviet Union. Restoration by Warsaw Documentary Film Studio (WFDiF). \\nMan on the Tracks\\nMan on the Tracks \/ Cz\u0142owiek na torzePoland, 1957, 82mPolish with English subtitlesA provocative examination of party-line deviation and coercion in Stalinized Poland, Man on the Tracks takes place in the aftermath of a locomotive driver\u2019s ostensible suicide, and centers on an investigation of the deceased, Orzechowski, whose questionable political orientation makes him the prime suspect in a railway sabotage case. In the first of Munk\u2019s many collaborations with the writer Jerzy Stefan Stawi\u0144ski (who also penned Wajda\u2019s Kana\u0142), a mystery unfolds through a Rashomon-style structure, with Orzechowski\u2019s bosses and assistants rendering their impressions of him and the events leading to his demise via extended flashbacks. Absent any music, the film sustains a grim, skittish atmosphere with the sounds of whistles, alarms, and pistons that punctuate its laconic dialogue and austere compositions. Restoration by The Chimney Pot and Soundplace.  \\nEroica\\nEroicaPoland, 1957, 80mPolish with English subtitlesMunk\u2019s international breakthrough film represented a formative leap in the director\u2019s style and tone. Based on two short stories by frequent collaborator Jerzy Stefan Stawi\u0144ski, this diptych snaps from comedy to tragedy to deconstruct notions of Polish heroism in World War II. The first episode, a sharply pointed farce titled \u201cScherzo alla Polacca,\u201d follows a quixotic bon vivant after he deserts Poland\u2019s underground resistance to avoid the Warsaw Uprising. The far more despairing narrative \u201cOstinato Lugubre\u201d involves a group of Polish POWs and one soldier\u2019s hopeless attempt at escape. Munk\u2019s wartime symphony is steeped in humor, yet fully aware of the dark visions of war and its horrors, particularly the nationalistic mores impressed on societies. Restoration by The Chimney Pot and Toya Studios.  \\nBad Luck\\nBad Luck \/ Zezowate szcz\u0119\u015bciePoland, 1960, 109mPolish with English subtitlesA withering satire on the tactics of opportunism in early-20th-century Poland, Munk\u2019s penultimate film shows the director at his most simultaneously acerbic and controlled. Bugumi\u0142 Kobiela (Ashes and Diamonds) stars as Piszczyk, an \u201cunlucky\u201d Pole who looks back on the various crises of his life to protest his release from a communist prison. Munk once again turns to the flashback strategy to unveil his protagonist\u2019s unscrupulous survival instincts that perpetually, and hilariously, backfire. Blisteringly subversive and wonderfully idiosyncratic, Bad Luckis something like a Witold Gombrowicz novel translated by Charlie Chaplin. Restoration by Fixafilm. \\nPassenger\\nPassenger \/ Pasa\u017cerkaPoland, 1961-63, 59mPolish with English subtitlesIncomplete at the time of Munk\u2019s death in 1961, Passenger takes as its focus the harrowing relationship between two women in a German concentration camp, as recalled by a former guard after she encounters, years later aboard a luxury cruise ship, one of her Polish ex-prisoners. Working from footage shot just before his fatal accident, Munk\u2019s collaborators (notably director Witold Lesiewicz and writer Wiktor Woroszylski) constructed a speculative version of the film, partially made up of still shots. The film is as much a profoundly disturbing comment on trauma, memory, and freedom as it is an intriguing experiment, permeated by an unmistakable sense of admiration from the late filmmaker\u2019s contemporaries. A NYFF2 selection. Restoration by DI Factory. \\nScreening with:\\nA Walk in the Old City of Warsaw\\nA Walk in the Old City of Warsaw \/ Spacerek staromiejskiPoland, 1958, 18mIn this vibrant collaboration with the composer Andrzej Markowski, a young music student wanders around the alleys and buildings of Warsaw\u2019s Old Town. Without any dialogue, Munk creates an eccentric atmosphere by fusing Markowski\u2019s instrumentation with the ordinary sounds of the city. 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A discounted All-Access Pass will also be available for $20. FLC members receive an additional 20% discount on all film rentals and pass purchases.\nPresented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute. Organized by Tyler Wilson and Tomek Smolarski (Polish Cultural Institute New York).\nFilm at Lincoln Center (FLC) announces a virtual retrospective of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Munk, showcasing seven pivotal films, all newly restored, that bring his cinematic contributions into sharper focus. The series kicks off August 20 in the FLC Virtual Cinema. \nConsidered one of the founders of the Polish Film School movement, along with Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Andrzej Munk began his career making agitprop documentaries in the era of Stalinized Poland, and, in the aftermath of the 1956 Polish thaw, came to artistic maturity with a suite of shrewdly incendiary features. Although his career was brief\u2014he died in a car accident in 1961, during the making of his final feature, Passenger\u2014the films made by Munk throughout the \u201950s have come to encapsulate the spirit of rebellion in postwar Poland. These works bristled with cool skepticism, and indefatigable elements of satire and irony that evaded state censorship guidelines; many explored the perverse survival instincts and displacement arising from war, while others witnessed the hardship and beauty of everyday labor. Munk received a posthumous award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival recognizing his entire oeuvre, and his influence persists, visible in the work of renowned Polish filmmakers such as Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, and Jerzy Skolimowski, Munk\u2019s former student. \nFILMS &amp; DESCRIPTIONS\nMen of Blue Cross\nThe Men of the Blue Cross \/ B\u0142\u0119kitny krzy\u017cPoland, 1955, 56mPolish with English subtitlesBy the mid-1950s, Munk began to make what he referred to as \u201cdramatized documentaries,\u201d in which he took greater liberties with staging and nonprofessional actors. In The Men of the Blue Cross, considered by some to be his first overtly fictionalized film, actual mountaineers reenact a rescue mission they had carried out in the Tatra Mountains during World War II. Roughly 10 years after the fact, Munk dabbled in the visual compositions of a genre film to recreate some of the rescuers\u2019 most dramatic memories\u2014including their escape from an avalanche and a shootout with German soldiers\u2014using a combination of intricately lit spaces and verit\u00e9, on-location cinematography. Restoration by Fixafilm. \nScreening with:\nDestination\nDestination \u2013 Nowa Huta! \/ Kierunek \u2013 Nowa Huta!Poland, 1951, 13mPolish with English subtitlesIn this deceptively chipper piece of agitprop, a narrator details the laborious construction of Nowa Huta, a utopian city built as one of the few monuments to Poland\u2019s fellowship with the Soviet Union. Restoration by Warsaw Documentary Film Studio (WFDiF). \nMan on the Tracks\nMan on the Tracks \/ Cz\u0142owiek na torzePoland, 1957, 82mPolish with English subtitlesA provocative examination of party-line deviation and coercion in Stalinized Poland, Man on the Tracks takes place in the aftermath of a locomotive driver\u2019s ostensible suicide, and centers on an investigation of the deceased, Orzechowski, whose questionable political orientation makes him the prime suspect in a railway sabotage case. In the first of Munk\u2019s many collaborations with the writer Jerzy Stefan Stawi\u0144ski (who also penned Wajda\u2019s Kana\u0142), a mystery unfolds through a Rashomon-style structure, with Orzechowski\u2019s bosses and assistants rendering their impressions of him and the events leading to his demise via extended flashbacks. Absent any music, the film sustains a grim, skittish atmosphere with the sounds of whistles, alarms, and pistons that punctuate its laconic dialogue and austere compositions. Restoration by The Chimney Pot and Soundplace.  \nEroica\nEroicaPoland, 1957, 80mPolish with English subtitlesMunk\u2019s international breakthrough film represented a formative leap in the director\u2019s style and tone. Based on two short stories by frequent collaborator Jerzy Stefan Stawi\u0144ski, this diptych snaps from comedy to tragedy to deconstruct notions of Polish heroism in World War II. The first episode, a sharply pointed farce titled \u201cScherzo alla Polacca,\u201d follows a quixotic bon vivant after he deserts Poland\u2019s underground resistance to avoid the Warsaw Uprising. The far more despairing narrative \u201cOstinato Lugubre\u201d involves a group of Polish POWs and one soldier\u2019s hopeless attempt at escape. Munk\u2019s wartime symphony is steeped in humor, yet fully aware of the dark visions of war and its horrors, particularly the nationalistic mores impressed on societies. Restoration by The Chimney Pot and Toya Studios.  \nBad Luck\nBad Luck \/ Zezowate szcz\u0119\u015bciePoland, 1960, 109mPolish with English subtitlesA withering satire on the tactics of opportunism in early-20th-century Poland, Munk\u2019s penultimate film shows the director at his most simultaneously acerbic and controlled. Bugumi\u0142 Kobiela (Ashes and Diamonds) stars as Piszczyk, an \u201cunlucky\u201d Pole who looks back on the various crises of his life to protest his release from a communist prison. Munk once again turns to the flashback strategy to unveil his protagonist\u2019s unscrupulous survival instincts that perpetually, and hilariously, backfire. Blisteringly subversive and wonderfully idiosyncratic, Bad Luckis something like a Witold Gombrowicz novel translated by Charlie Chaplin. Restoration by Fixafilm. \nPassenger\nPassenger \/ Pasa\u017cerkaPoland, 1961-63, 59mPolish with English subtitlesIncomplete at the time of Munk\u2019s death in 1961, Passenger takes as its focus the harrowing relationship between two women in a German concentration camp, as recalled by a former guard after she encounters, years later aboard a luxury cruise ship, one of her Polish ex-prisoners. Working from footage shot just before his fatal accident, Munk\u2019s collaborators (notably director Witold Lesiewicz and writer Wiktor Woroszylski) constructed a speculative version of the film, partially made up of still shots. The film is as much a profoundly disturbing comment on trauma, memory, and freedom as it is an intriguing experiment, permeated by an unmistakable sense of admiration from the late filmmaker\u2019s contemporaries. A NYFF2 selection. Restoration by DI Factory. \nScreening with:\nA Walk in the Old City of Warsaw\nA Walk in the Old City of Warsaw \/ Spacerek staromiejskiPoland, 1958, 18mIn this vibrant collaboration with the composer Andrzej Markowski, a young music student wanders around the alleys and buildings of Warsaw\u2019s Old Town. Without any dialogue, Munk creates an eccentric atmosphere by fusing Markowski\u2019s instrumentation with the ordinary sounds of the city. 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