Sell everything
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sell everything |
| Original title | Wszystko na sprzedaż |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Wajda |
| script | Andrzej Wajda |
| production | Zespół Filmowy camera |
| music | Andrzej Korzyński |
| camera | Witold Sobociński |
| cut | Halina Prugar-Ketling |
| occupation | |
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All for Sale is a Polish feature film from 1969 directed by Andrzej Wajda .
action
A man tries to catch a departing train at a station at the last moment. When he tries to jump up, he stumbles and falls under the train. Ela runs up the stairs to the platform, sees the accident and screams. However, we are not in the real world, but rather filming the new film by director Andrzej, which suddenly appears between the wagons. He had replaced the actor who was supposed to be playing the role. The actor is missing and nobody knows where he is. His Ela goes in search of her husband. She receives support from Beata, Andrzej's wife. Ela and Beata have a common past. Ela is the former lover of director Andrzej, while Beata was the former lover of the missing actor. While looking for the actor, the two women learned from the radio news that the actor they were looking for got under the wheels of the train while trying to catch a train and had a fatal accident.
The mourning for the beloved actor is great among colleagues. As if paralyzed by the news, they advise how the film can now be completed without him. Andrzej believes that the film should be shot in memory of the actor. Cinematographer Kostek says that he is technically able to shoot the film without the main actor. Bobek, the actor's best friend, is against such a solution. Andrzej also has his doubts. He hears the story of an alleged script that the actor is said to have written. However, he only told them. Andrzej seeks out the man to whom the actor told the script. He finds the man filming a period film. However, the story does not convince Andrzej. The assistant director Witek now brings the young actor Daniel into conversation, who is not only a great admirer of the actor who died in the accident, but is also considered so talented that he is the legitimate successor of the deceased. Andrzej decides to finish the film with Daniel.
background
On January 8, 1967, Andrzej Wajda was in London and discussed the idea of a film about Zbigniew Cybulski with a screenwriter with Zbigniew Cybulski in the lead role. Since Asche and Diamant , which was the breakthrough for Wajda and Cybulski in the mid-1950s, the two had not made a film together. Cybulski only had a small role in Wajda's film The Innocent Sorcerers . A little later, Wajda received a call from Roman Polański , who informed him that Cybulski had had a fatal accident at Wrocław Central Station . Cybulski's death put an end to the fresh film idea right from the start. Wajda returned to Poland, but was sure that he had to create a cinematic monument for Cybulski, and so the film Everything to sell was made without Zbigniew Cybulski being seen even once in this film. Wajda developed the script during filming together with the actors and cameraman Andrzej Kostenko, who played the cameraman in the film and worked on the dialogues.
The filming of the film lasted only a few weeks in 1968. However, Wajda needed a total of six months for the cut. Due to the improvised way of working, this was the film in Wajda's work that required the longest post-production time. It is Wajda's only film that was made in this way.
The scene in which director Andrzej is told the script by two men was filmed on the set for the film Life, Love and Death of Colonel Wolodyjowski . This Polish historical film based on the trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz was made by director Jerzy Hoffman and is one of the classics of Polish historical cinema today.
Reviews
“The film is a dedication by Andrzej Wajda to the actor Zbigniew Cybulski, who died under very similar circumstances. The fictional story and the document of real dismay merge into a demanding reflection on the dichotomy of human and artistic existence and an examination of the role of the artist in a medium shaped by commercial criteria. "
“The [...] film by Polish director Wajda, with which he commemorates his friend Cybulski, who died in an accident, reports on the difficulty of being an artist in a milieu and a medium that is also shaped by industrial, commercial elements. Reality dictates the script and over and over again suppresses the plot of the film, which like hardly any other shows the ambiguities of human forms of existence. For thoughtful adults. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Everything for sale. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 179/1969