An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War. The old woman is suspicious at first but then lets him stay. The townspeople begin to talk but he wins them over even if they feel he does not look like the man in question. With time and his gentle ways change peopl...
An essay by Rafal Marszalek:
Pills for Aurelia - Who needs a doctor
The average cinemagoer knows little about the filmmaker Stanislaw Lenartowicz. Born in 1921, he served in the Polish Home Army during World War II in the Vilnius District where he was arrested and sent to a Soviet forced-labour camp. After the war he studied Polish and Wroclaw University and directing at the F...
Stanislaw Lenartowicz是波兰电影学院派中另一位重要的导演，这部影片改编自孔维茨基比较悔涩难懂的一本小说，混合了先锋电影的一些剪辑手法，与诗意社会写实主义风格的影像。
I have to admit that I know the real story behind the interview with Stanislaw Lenartowicz conducted by Adam Wyzynski (Zawsze trzeba byc soba – You Should Always be Yourself). The film director is reluctant to give interviews that are to be published in the press – he expresses his mist...
