ZANUSSI

The Constant Factor (Constans) 1980

Saturday, 01/05/02 - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, 01/06/02 - 9:00 p.m.
Friday, 01/11/02 - 12:00 a.m.

Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, this is a classic example of Poland's "cinema of moral anxiety" in the 70's and early 80's, of which Zanussi was the leading exponent. A young man whose yearning to climb the Himalayas, which his father had died doing, is thwarted when he is framed for petty corruption on the job while facing the death of his mother: a low-key vignette that becomes a profoundly powerful meditation on the possibility for hope in a predetermined world.
"Bracing and disturbing" - New York Times

THE POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE AND CUNY TV CITY CINEMATHEQUE PRESENT A ZANUSSI RETROSPECTIVE
	*Family Life (Zycie rodzinne) 1971* Saturday, 12/29/01 - 9:00 p.m. Sunday, 12/30/01 - 9:00 p.m. Friday, 01/04/02 - 12:00 a.m. The film that put Zanussi on the world map of major filmmakers. It also may be the first major Polish film to break out of Polish cinema's traditionally theatrical style of acting, with brilliant ensemble work and a breathtaking performance by Maja Komorowska. A young engineer is summoned home to the decaying mansion where the exhortations of his dysfunctional relatives to become their savior force him to choose between family sympathies and self-fulfillment.

*The Constant Factor (Constans) 1980* Saturday, 01/05/02 - 9:00 p.m. Sunday, 01/06/02 - 9:00 p.m. Friday, 01/11/02 - 12:00 a.m. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, this is a classic example of Poland's "cinema of moral anxiety" in the 70's and early 80's, of which Zanussi was the leading exponent. A young man whose yearning to climb the Himalayas, which his father had died doing, is thwarted when he is framed for petty corruption on the job while facing the death of his mother: a low-key vignette that becomes a profoundly powerful meditation on the possibility for hope in a predetermined world. "Bracing and disturbing" - New York Times

	*Wherever You Are (Gdzieskolwiek jest...) 1988* Saturday, 01/12/02 - 9:00 p.m. Sunday, 01/13/02 - 9:00 p.m. Friday, 01/18/02 - 12:00 a.m. In this Polish-British-West German co-production that is not widely known, Zanussi captures the moral horror of war with a subtlety that makes it even more powerful in its own way -- for many of those who have seen it -- than such films as Paths of Glory or Schindler's List.
*At Full Gallop (Cwal) 1996* Friday, April 25 - midnight Saturday, May 3 - 9 PM Sunday, May 4 - 9 PM Friday, May 9 - midnight This is a more relaxed and personal film with autobiographical overtones that are obvious for those familiar with Zanussi's earlier success in outwitting the Communist censors. A young boy in the Stalinist era whose father has escaped to the west is sent by his mother, in order to spare him retribution by the Party, to live with an aristocratic and gutsy aunt who knows how to manipulate the authorities -- and who teaches him how to preserve some independence in a centralized world. The film is Zanussi's compassionate reflection on the often difficult choice between compromise for survival and a sometimes self-destructive integrity.

	*Our God's Brother (Brat naszego Boga) 1997* Saturday, 01/26/02 - 9:00 p.m. Sunday, 01/27/02 - 9:00 p.m. Friday, 02/01/02 - 12 a.m. This film is based on a play about Saint Albert by a young priest named Karol Woytyla, the future Pope John Paul II, who had found spiritual support for his own withdrawal from literature and theater in the analogous choice of a man who had given up a promising career as a painter for a life of religious devotion and aid to the poor. In Woytyla’s telling, the competing voice of a “Stranger” offers materialistic solutions for human misery, giving the play and the film a political dimension.

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