Chamanka
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Szamanka |
| Country of production |
Poland , France , Switzerland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK unchecked |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Żuławski |
| script | Manuela Gretkowska |
| production | Janusz Dorosiewicz |
| music | Andrzej Korzyński |
| camera | Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz |
| cut | Wanda Zeman |
| occupation | |
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Szamanka is a feature film by the Polish director Andrzej Żuławski . It is the only film that the director made in his home country after the democratization of Poland.
action
The film depicts the relationship between a young woman and the anthropology lecturer Michał. The woman from the provinces, who can be described as Italian , begins studying at the Warsaw University of Technology . While looking for an apartment in Warsaw , she meets Michał, who sublet the apartment of his brother, a priest who is confronted with his homosexuality and who is giving up the seminary. Although they are each in a partnership, both enter into an affair with each other, which in the course of the film becomes a kind of relationship. The Italian is becoming increasingly obsessed with Michał and is neglecting her studies, among other things. During a visit to her mother, who is raising the toddler of the Italian's sister , she persuaded her mother to be able to finance her life in Warsaw. The Italian , who is actually a vegetarian, then works in her cousin's meat factory to earn money and pay off her mother again. During the course of the film, Michał leaves his fiancée Anna, who is an architect and has already designed a house for both of them. Anna takes her own life in the shell of the house. When Michał's brother, who cannot cope with his homosexuality, also commits suicide and Michał travels with the Italian to the small town of Miszkowice to identify his brother , they both notice that they grew up in the same small town. The Italian also meets her ex-boyfriend in Miszkowice, a resident doctor who has had an affair with a nurse. A fellow student of the Italian falls in love with her, but is ultimately rejected by her, whereupon he also commits suicide. When Michał decides to give up his current life and become a priest like his deceased brother, the Italian kills him with a tin can. Then she takes a teaspoon that she always has in her handbag and eats from the wound on the back of Michał's head.
backgrounds
The film was shot in Warsaw , Cracow and Częstochowa . Due to the explicit depiction of sex and violence, the film received controversial reviews and was only allowed to be shown in Polish cinemas to a limited extent. In 2010, director Andrzej Żuławski stated that during the theatrical release in Polish villages, priests physically prevented people from entering cinemas showing Szamanka .
Iwona Petry had no acting experience before Szamanka . Żuławski hired the sociology student who passed it at the time after a chance encounter in a Warsaw café. After the premiere of the film, Petry and Żuławski carried their disagreements to the outside in a media-effective manner , which reinforced Szamanka's reputation for being a scandalous film.
The film's scriptwriter is the Polish feminist Manuela Gretkowska , who was living in Paris at the time , but later returned to Poland and founded the Polish women's party Inicjatywa Feministyczna there.
The journalist Daniel Bird sees Szamanka as a self- satire by Żuławski, which arises from the fact that the director exaggerates the stylistic devices that are typical for him.
Web links
- Szamanka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chamanka on filmpolski.pl with photos