Afterimage (2016)

Name: Afterimage
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2016
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Aleksander Fabisiak, Aleksandra Justa, Bogusław Linda, Bronisława Zamachowska, Filip Gurłacz

Original Title: Powidoki

Drama History

6.5 (86 votes)

1h 38m

Overview

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.

Details

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Writer: Andrzej Mularczyk, Andrzej Wajda
Original Language: Polish
Budget: N/A

Cast

Aleksander Fabisiak Aleksandra Justa Bogusław Linda Bronisława Zamachowska Filip Gurłacz Irena Melcer Jacek Beler Krzysztof Pieczyński Mariusz Bonaszewski Mateusz Rzeźniczak Paulina Gałązka Rafał Zawierucha Tomasz Chodorowski Tomasz Włosok Zofia Wichłacz

Keywords

art artist censorship chance communism community joseph stalin legal system man painting physical disability poland rejection resistance subordination vision work