When a leading actor disappears from a film set, his family and crew search for him before tragic news reaches them. Wajda’s homage to his beloved actor Zbigniew Cybulski, the star of Ashes and Diamonds (p27), is also a scathing portrait of the film industry. Weaving together autobiography and fiction, Wajda questions what it means to be an artist, and how we mourn, create legends and remember the past. Contains themes of suicide
+ Warsaw (from Love at Twenty) Warszawa (from Miłość dwudziestolatków)
Poland 1962. Director Andrzej Wajda. 25min. Digital (restoration). With English subtitles
Wajda’s last collaboration with Zbigniew Cybulski grapples with intergenerational misalignment.
