समाचार

A prodigal son returns to his village at the beginning of Janusz Zaorski’s biting satire – an adaptation of Edward Redliński’s novel. Marian Grzyb (Marian Opania) arrives with a mission: to lead the residents of Wydmuchowo out of darkness and into modernity. The peasants aren’t convinced at first, but by the end, they’ll prove capable of beating him at his own game.

The film was produced by Pryzmat, one of several film collectives in socialist Poland. The group (‘zespół’) was later dissolved over alleged financial negligence and mismanagement during the production of Andrzej Żuławski’s sci-fi art epic On The Silver Globe.

Zaorski, present at a screening at Warsaw's Timeless Film Festival 50 years after the film’s premiere, offered up a few playful key phrases: ‘village within a city’, ‘city within a village’. But it’s perhaps more illuminating to turn to the words of another filmmaker.