Wajda, culture minister, praise new Jewish pogrom movie
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
07.11.2012 13:04
Pokłosie (Aftermath), a film inspired by a WW II-era Jewish pogrom in a Polish village, has been hailed by Poland’s veteran director Andrzej Wajda as “excellent and moving”.
Pokłosie: press kit
“ I am very happy that such a film was made in Poland” Wajda said after the movie’s press premiere in Warsaw, three days before Aftermath goes on general release.
Written and directed by Wladysław Pasikowski, Aftermath is the story of two brothers.
Having returned to his native village after years of living abroad, one of them discovers that what lies at the roots of his younger brother’s dispute with his neighbours is a dark secret from the past, the killing of more than 100 Jews by their neighbours who took over their houses and farms.
Minister of Culture Bogdan Zdrojewski has said: “I admire the courage in taking up such a difficult theme and analyzing, in a cinematic form, a dramatic episode in Poland’s history”.
Aftermath is a Polish-Dutch-Slovak-Russian co-production.The cast includes several top Polish actors – Maciej Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.
The film won Pasikowski a Critics’ Award at this year’s Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. (mk/pg)