Marczewski's anti-totalitarian satire is a darkly comic examination of censorship. Adapting the premise of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo to late 1980s Poland, the film centres on a provincial film censor who is horrified to discover that the actors in a trite romantic weepie are refusing to perform their roles. Directed by one of Poland's leading intellectual - and much censored - filmmakers, this multi-awardwinning feature is a key film of the seismic political changes of 1989, and an enthusiastic manifesto for the freedom of the artist - and ultimately,... of all humanity. [show more]
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Polish comedy drama written and directed by Wojciech Marczewski. Set during the latter days of Poland's communist regime in the 1980s, the film centres around a lonely government censor (Janusz Gajos). When actors refuse to speak their lines during a screening of the romantic drama 'Daybreak', the censor is called across the street to restore order to the Liberty Cinema. After he fails, top communist officials are brought in to silence the errant actors, but will they be able to succeed?
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