Landscape after the battle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Landscape after the battle |
| Original title | Krajobraz po bitwie |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Wajda |
| script |
Andrzej Wajda , Andrzej Brzozowski |
| production | Zespół Filmowy Wektor |
| music | Zygmunt Konieczny |
| camera | Zygmunt Samosiuk |
| cut | Halina Prugar-Ketling |
| occupation | |
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Landscape after the Battle is a Polish feature film by Andrzej Wajda from 1970. The film was based on subjects from the concentration camp stories by Tadeusz Borowski .
action
The film takes place in a concentration camp in Germany that was liberated by the Americans shortly before. The camp is now run by the Americans as a DP camp . The inmates no longer suffer from the terror of the Nazis and from inhuman forced labor . Nevertheless, they are still inmates of a camp and disoriented. She is preoccupied with the search for food and new clothes. One of these disoriented is the young Polish poet Tadeusz. He is irritated by his compatriots, who have just survived the most terrible things, but are starting another political, patriotic dispute. The only thing they have in common is constant hunger and the desire to eat their fill. Sensitive intellectuals like Tadeusz, however, abhor the primitive behavior of his compatriots.
The pretty Jewish girl Nina is also among the liberated. She is also Polish, but quickly realizes that religion separates her from her compatriots just as it did before. She finds the Polish men in the camp repulsive. Only Tadeusz seems to be different, and so a tender love story develops in this absurd no man's land situation. However, Tadeusz struggles to start a normal relationship under these circumstances. Nina wants to flee with him to the West, as she sees no future for herself in a future Poland. However, Tadeusz is incapable of making a decision, as he has not yet found a recipe for an everyday life in peace after surviving. Tadeusz hesitates with his decision, and death once again decides his future life. Nina is accidentally shot by an American guard.
The Polish patriots in the camp hold an anniversary celebration to commemorate the Battle of Grunwald . Tadeusz finally decides to return to Poland.
music
In addition to the original music by Konieczny, who also contributed a song to poems by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński , Wajda used classical music to accompany his apocalyptic images: The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi and the Polonaise in A flat major by Frédéric Chopin .
Reviews
“Wajdas film is self-critical coming to terms with the Polish past with bitter and ironic highlights on the national mentality and the weaknesses of human nature. A consistently convincing, haunting description of the concentration camp imprisonment and the resulting psychological devastation through the experience of human malice, through hunger and fear of death. The focus is on a writer who can only save himself in cynicism, but who ultimately takes the risk of an unsecured freedom. "
Awards
The film Scenery After the Battle was invited to the 1970 Cannes Film Festival competition . However, he received no award here. In Poland it was voted best film of 1970 by the film magazine film in 1971.
Web links
- Landscape after the battle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmpolski.pl with photos of the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Landscape after the battle on Filmdienst.de