The conductor
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The conductor |
| Original title | Dyrygent |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Wajda |
| script | Andrzej Kijowski |
| production | Zespół Filmowy X |
| music | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| camera | Sławomir Idziak |
| cut | Halina Prugar-Ketling |
| occupation | |
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The Conductor is a Polish feature film from 1980.
action
Marta is a Polish violinist and is spending three months in New York on a scholarship . There she noticed the legendary conductor John Lasocki through a concert poster. Lasocki had emigrated from Poland decades ago and was in love with Marta's mother. After the concert in New York, Marta tries to get in touch with Lasocki, who can very well remember his youth with Marta's mother. Lasocki cancels an important concert in Paris and comes to Marta's provincial hometown to rehearse Beethoven's 5th Symphony with the local orchestra . Marta is the second violinist there and her husband Adam Pietryk is the orchestra's chief conductor. Adam is ambitious but also jealous. During Marta's three-month absence, he spent time with daughter Marysia and kept in touch with Marta by letter. He is amazed that she only has something to report about Lasocki and otherwise only women. He now sees it as a great opportunity to prepare the orchestra for work with Lasocki, but the encounter with the famous conductor is mainly characterized by jealousy. This jealousy carries over to the orchestra. Adam treats the orchestra with almost sadistic aggressiveness, while Lasocki treats it almost tenderly. This leads to the rebellion of the orchestra against Adam. This tension also throws his relationship with Marta into a serious crisis.
The concert is getting closer. City officials want to move the concert to a factory building that is under construction so more people can watch the biggest event in the city's history. The television should broadcast live. An official from Warsaw suggests bringing in better musicians from the capital. First, Adam defends himself against it. But when the concert approaches and the orchestra rebels against Adam, Adam decides to bring in the musicians from Warsaw. For the first rehearsal in the factory hall, Lasocki enters the podium, recognizes the strange musicians in the orchestra and leaves the rehearsal angrily. Lasocki is walking around town that evening and sees a huge line of people waiting for the ticket office to open. He sits down with those waiting. Marta and Adam look for him and find him dead in the queue of those waiting.
background
The film was made after stories and interviews with the Polish conductor Andrzej Markowski . The married couple Marta and Adam are played by Krystyna Janda and Andrzej Seweryn, who at the time were also a married couple privately. Their daughter Maria Seweryn also played the little daughter in the film. Today Maria Seweryn is also an actress.
Reviews
"A haunting psychological chamber play that masterfully reflects on basic art-theoretical problems such as the relationship between art and society and can be seen over large areas as an indirect illumination of political-existential questions."
“Like Fellini's “ orchestral rehearsal ”,“ The Conductor ”can also be understood as a parable in which Wajda reflects on his experiences with state arbitrariness. But this is not the end of the fascination of this film. It remains multi-layered until the end: symbol games, reportage (Wajda prefers to work with the mobile handheld camera) and, last but not least, a meditation on professionalism and amateurism. "
Awards
The film ran in the competition at the Berlinale 1980 . Andrzej Seweryn was awarded the Silver Bear for best actor for his performance as conductor Adam Pietryk . At the San Sebastian Film Festival in the same year, the film was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize and the OCIC Prize.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The conductor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Time (March 7, 1980)