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Orientalism in Polish Cinema
As part of this program, three different biographical films present a fresh look into the notion of the East.
Polish cinema until recently generally ignored Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures on the screen. Recent events related to the Middle-Eastern movements have changed this perspective.
Papusza (2013) is a romantic tragedy of lost rights, lost affection, and alienation of non-conformists by society, whilst at the same time underlining that the real loser remains the community itself, and the significance of this loss to the European social anatomy. Romany poet Bronislawa Wajs (1908-1987), known as Papusza, is a Polish legend. Rather than a classical biographical piece, the film exposes the destiny of this talented woman, and her ethnic background in the context of modern history. The black-and-white photography conjures up a poetic and, in places, raw testimony of the regions travelled by the Romanies before the Second World War and immed
Show morePolish cinema until recently generally ignored Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures on the screen. Recent events related to the Middle-Eastern movements have changed this perspective.
Papusza (2013) is a romantic tragedy of lost rights, lost affection, and alienation of non-conformists by society, whilst at the same time underlining that the real loser remains the community itself, and the significance of this loss to the European social anatomy. Romany poet Bronislawa Wajs (1908-1987), known as Papusza, is a Polish legend. Rather than a classical biographical piece, the film exposes the destiny of this talented woman, and her ethnic background in the context of modern history. The black-and-white photography conjures up a poetic and, in places, raw testimony of the regions travelled by the Romanies before the Second World War and immed
