Wojciech Jerzy Has, photo Filmoteka Narodowa/www.fototeka.fn.org.pl
During the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the audience will see a retrospective of the works of Wojciech Jerzy Has, the prominent Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, as well as films made by his students. The project is organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.
Wojciech Has won many film awards, and is recognized as a visionary of Polish cinema. In each of his films, he created a world of his own, and the fate of his characters serve as background for the vividness of his images. He is also praised for the uniqueness of language in his films, to which he paid particular attention.
During the Hong Kong International Film Festival, one of the oldest and most prestigious film festivals in Asia, the audience of the Agnes B repertoire cinema will see five Has films, as well as productions by his students and artists inspired by his work.
The three-part programme devoted to the Polish filmmaker is entitled Has - Beyond the Master:
- The Master will feature a Has retrospective including The Saragossa Manuscript, his epically comic adaptation of the 19th-century novel by Jan Potocki, The Hour-Glass Sanatorium adapted from the story collection by Bruno Schulz, and his more intimate psychological films Noose, How to Be Loved and Farewells
Still from the film How to Be Loved by Wojciech Has, 1962. On the image: Zbigniew Cybulski.
- Learning from the Master will feature a screening of Traces, a documentary about Has directed by Robert Gliński, a portrait of the director with other artists talking about their creative meetings with the master.
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Beyond the Master will feature a film review of Has’s students and artists who have drawn from his work:
Malgorzata Szumowska’s It, a film based on a novel by Dorota Terakowska about 19-year-old Eve, who goes through an unplanned pregnancy
Sławomir Fabicki’s Love, a study of the breakdown of a happy marriage
Adrian Panek’s Daas, the life story of Jakub Frank as the Jewish messiah
Borys Lankosz’s Reverse, a dark comedy about three generations of women
Source: press materials. Edited by SW, 16/08/2013
Translation: LB 16/08/2013