Family life (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Family life |
| Original title | Życie rodzinne |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Krzysztof Zanussi |
| script | Krzysztof Zanussi |
| music | Wojciech Kilar |
| camera | Witold Sobociński |
| cut | Urszula Śliwińska |
| occupation | |
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Family Life is a Polish feature film from 1971. The second feature film by Krzysztof Zanussi was released in Polish cinemas on September 24, 1971. A German dubbed version was first broadcast on GDR television on January 13, 1973.
action
Wit is a young engineer who finds his way around the new socialist Poland well. His family is having a harder time doing this. The father lives with his daughter Bella and his sister-in-law in the run-down villa that has belonged to the family for generations. There they vegetate there, cannot and do not want to adapt to the new times. Before the Second World War , his father owned a glassworks , now he produces decorative balls for Christmas trees in a small workshop. Son Wit hasn't been home for six years. Now, however, he is going to a family reunion with his friend Marek, as he has received a telegram informing him that his father is seriously ill. When Wit and Marek arrive at the villa, however, it turns out that the father is by no means ill. Rather, he wants his son to come back home and take over the father's workshop. However, the conversations with the father do not convince Wit that he will return to the family. Instead, he watches as his sister Bella hooks up with Marek. Marek tries to convince Bella to leave his father's house with him. Bella doesn't want to leave the father alone with the crazy aunt, however. Marek leaves the meeting prematurely without Wit. A little later, Wit also leaves the family without saying goodbye to his father.
criticism
"The excellently played, passionate and bitter description of two worlds and generations that separates an unbridgeable gap."
Awards
The film was invited to the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1971 , but received nothing in the award ceremony. In 1972 the film was named best film of the year by the film magazine “Film” in Poland.
Web links
- Family life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ family life . In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 27, 2017 .