Eroica (1958)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Eroica |
| Original title | Eroica - Symfonia bohaterska w dwóch częściach |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Munk |
| script | Jerzy Stefan Stawiński |
| production | Zespół Autorów Filmowych kadr |
| music | Jan Krenz |
| camera | Jerzy Wójcik |
| cut |
Miroslawa Garlicka Jadwiga Zajicek |
| occupation | |
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Episode 1: Scherzo alla polacca
Episode 2: Ostinato lugubre
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Eroica (Original title: Eroica - Symfonia bohaterska w dwóch częściach , dt .: Eroica - A heroic symphony in two parts ) is a two-part episode film by Polish director Andrzej Munk from 1958. The film premiered on January 4, 1958 premiere in Poland.
The film was first shown in the GDR on April 3, 1964 by the distribution company Neue Filmkunst under the title Eroica - Poland 44 and broadcast in the Federal Republic on November 7, 1966 on ZDF .
action
The two episodes of the film (episode 1: Scherzo alla Polacca , episode 2: Ostinato lugubre ) tell of events during the Warsaw uprising and the fate of Polish officers imprisoned in a German prisoner-of-war camp after the uprising. They are based on the short stories Węgrzy (German: The Hungarians ) and Ucieczka (German: Escape ) by the Polish author Jerzy Stefan Stawiński , who was also responsible for the screenplay of the film.
A third episode ( Con Bravura ), which is based on Stawiński's short story Zakonnica ( Eng .: The Nun ) and was originally intended to introduce the film, was shot, but later viewed by Munk as artistically inadequate and therefore not integrated into the final version.
background
The title Eroica and the music-theoretical terms (Scherzo, Ostinato, Bravura) in the titles of the individual episodes refer to Beethoven's 3rd Symphony , which is also known as the Heroic Symphony or Eroica , and the general structure of a symphony (consisting of three or classical consists of four separate sentences). Beethoven had originally written his symphony in honor of Napoleon , whom he considered a heroic advocate of the ideals of the French Revolution , but withdrew his dedication and lamented Napoleon's change from hero to tyrant after he learned of his coronation as emperor. Like the plot of the film itself, the title tells of false and failed hero myths in the collective consciousness of a particular era. The fact that the actually planned third episode was not included in the film reinforces the impression of an imperfect symphony that begins with the Scherzo and then ends abruptly in a sad ( lugubre ) ostinato.
reception
The film received the FIPRESCI Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata in 1959 . The cinema magazine Cinema wrote that Munk was playing with "horror" in this "bitter grotesque". All in all, the film is difficult to digest, but this would soften "the slight irony" a little.
Web links
- Eroica in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures and information (Polish) on all three episodes of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the film lexicon Films AZ of the two-thousand-one publishing house
- ↑ Article about Andrzej Munk's work by Ewa Nawój on culture.pl (in English)
- ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed December 9, 2014 .
- ^ Eroica Poland 44th Cinema , accessed December 9, 2014 .