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Krzysztof Zanussi - Prizewinners Film Collection (5-DVD)

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DVD 1
Barwy ochronne (Protective colors)

Original release date: 1977
Director:: Krzysztof Zanussi
Screenplay: Krzysztof Zanussi
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Eugeniusz Priwieziencew, Marian Glinka, Mariusz Dmochowski, Maria Mamona, Joanna Pacula, Borys Marynowski, Alfred Freudenheim, Magdalena Zawadzka, Dorota Kaminska
Region: 2
Time: 96 min.
Format: 16:9 | 1,85:1
Language version:
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
DVD extras: Direct access to scenes
Plot: The axis of the film narrative is the conflict between two attitudes. A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line. In the end, a jury prize is given to mediocre paper, while the suspected school of thought still draws a recommendation. Finally the deputy rector arrives for the closing ceremonies, and since he disfavors the line of thought awarded by the recommendation the tensions rise. They climax when student in question bites the rector in the ear while receiving recommendation. The confrontation results in a scandal and the police is called in.

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DVD 2
Dotkniecie reki (Touching hands)

Original release date: 1992
Director:: Krzysztof Zanussi
Screenplay: Peter Morgan Mark Wadlow
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Max von Sydow, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Eugeniusz Priwieziencew, Wiktor Zborowski, Aleksander Bardini, Trevor Cooper, Eugenia Herman, Sarah Miles, Slawomira Lozinska, Stanislaw Brejdygant
Region: 2
Time: 91 min.
Format: 16:9 | 2,35:1
Language version: English
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles: Polish
DVD extras: Direct access to scenes
Plot: Max von Sydow plays a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Sydow gets his new musical secretary (Sophie Grabol). His loyal wife (Sarah Miles) reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.

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DVD 3
Iluminacja (Ilumination)

Original release date: 1973
Director:Krzysztof Zanussi
Screenplay: Krzysztof Zanussi
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Zdzislaw Wardejn, Agnieszka Holland, Joanna Zólkowska, Edward Zebrowski, Malgorzata Pritulak, Michal Tarkowski, Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska, Marcin Latallo, Ryszard Wachowski, Jan Skotnicki
Region: 2
Time: 87 min.
Format: 16:9 | 1,85:1
Language version: Polish
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
DVD extras: Direct access to scenes, Marcina Latalla's documentary movie "Traces", profiles of actors and filmmakers
Plot: Illumination (floodlighting) is defined in philosophy as a state of mind in which man moves closer to knowing the truth about the world, about themselves, and the sense of human existence. The movie follows the education of a young man from his entry into college to his final achievement of a doctorate. Paralleling his outer education, his inner education about life, family, sexuality and spiritual values is revealed...

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DVD 4

Persona non grata

Original release date: 2005
Director:: Wojciech Kilar Krzysztof Zanussi
Screenplay: Krzysztof Zanussi
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Andrzej Chyra, Marcin Kwasny, Lech Lotocki, Ewa Telega, Jacek Borcuch, Tadeusz Bradecki, Nikita Mikhalkov
Region: 2
Time: 117 min.
Format: 16:9 | 1,85:1
Language version: Polish
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
DVD extras: Direct access to scenes, Short - How the movie was made, Profiles of actors and filmmakers
Plot: In 2005, Wiktor's wife, Helena (Halina Golanko), has just died suddenly of a stroke in Poland. Wiktor (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), the Polish ambassador to Uruguay, arrives to see her too late. An old Russian friend, Oleg (Nikita Mikhalkov), shows up briefly at the funeral for Helena. Wiktor wants to know if Oleg was involved with Helena. Oleg must travel to Uruguay and promises to tell Wiktor everything when they meet again...

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DVD 5
Struktura krysztalu (Crystal's structure)

Original release date: 1969
Director:: Krzysztof Zanussi
Screenplay: Krzysztof Zanussi
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Barbara Wrzesinska, Andrzej Zarnecki, Franciszek Starowieyski, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Jan Myslowicz, Wladyslaw Jarema, Adam Debski, Urszula Galecka, Barbara Wachowicz
Region: 2
Time: 74 min.
Format: 16:9 | 1,85:1
Language version: Polish
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
DVD extras: Direct access to scenes, Profiles of actors and filmmakers
Plot: From the first shot, the film is bleak: in its use of black and white; its setting of a snowy, frozen wasteland; the austerity of the lives of Jan and Anna; a stark soundtrack; and what appears to be a deliberate underexposure of the film--an effect highlighted by a clip from a film the characters see as part of the action which is clearer and brighter than the rest of the film. The aesthetic bleakness of the film mirrors the bleakness of life under Communism...