Sisyphus works (film)

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Movie
German title Sisyphean works
Original title Syzyfowe prace
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 2000
length 104 minutes
Rod
Director Paweł Komorowski
script Paweł Komorowski
music Jerzy Matuszkiewicz
camera Wiesław Zdort
cut Barbara Fronc
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Sisyphus works (original title Syzyfowe prace , English The Labor of Sisyphus ) is a Polish historical film from 2000 by Paweł Komorowski , based on the historical novel of the same name by Stefan Żeromski . The title of the novel refers to the Greek mythology of Sisyphus and portrays attempts to indoctrinate high school students that their apparently successful protests against Russification are doomed to failure.

The film is a co-production of Telewizja Polska , ITI Cinema , Wytwórnia Filmowa Lunartis, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych and the Łódzkie Centrum Filmowe .

action

Congress Poland in the summer of 1884. Marcin Borowicz, the only child of Helena and Walenty Borowicz, an impoverished Polish aristocratic family , after initial difficulties with the Russian language, despite the painful loss of his mother, finally passed the entrance exam for the entrance class at the State Boys' High School in Kielce and rides together with Józef, his father's servant, now to school. On the way he misses his new schoolmate Andrzej Radek, who is also on the way to high school. When he arrived in Kielce, he moved into a room in the U starej Przepiórczycy guesthouse (with the old quail). Here he meets the daughter of a patriotic Polish doctor, the young boarding school student Anna "Biruta" Stogowska, and falls in love with her. But to be seen with her is dangerous as she and her family are being spied on by the Russians. Marcin soon discovers the perfidious side of the practiced Russification at high school and cannot avoid the protests of his classmates against this upbringing. He longs to go home.

After all, the lessons in Polish with Mr. Sztetter (defamed as "local" by the Russians at the time) became his most important and groundbreaking experience during his time at the Kielc high school, when Bernard Zygier, a classmate, one day surprisingly wrote the important poem Reduta Ordona by Adam Mickiewicz lectures. This moment awakens the patriot in Marcin . Together with schoolmates Marcin now reads forbidden works by Polish writers at Gontali's and watches Anna “Biruta” Stogowska, smiles at her, runs after her, but doesn't yet dare to speak to her. When he finally wanted to approach her with a bouquet of flowers after graduating from high school, he was hard hit by the news that “Biruta” and her family had been banished deep into the Russian Empire and already deported because of their commitment to the Polish cause.

criticism

The film was nominated for Polish film awards in several categories. Paweł Komorowski focused on his film adaptation of Żeromski -Romans to the last three years of apprenticeship Borowiczs the Kielce gymnasium, which are the most important in the novel to the plot as a whole.

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