Retrospective: Soumitra Chatterjee The World of Apu Apur Sansar 193

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Retrospective: Soumitra Chatterjee
2015
Director: Satyajit Ray
The World of Apu
Apur Sansar
1959-117’-Bengali-B & W-India
Producer: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok
Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee, Tushar Bandyopadhyay,
Gupi Banerjee
Screenplay: Satyajit Ray
Cinematographer: Subrata Mitra
Editor: Dulal Dutta
Sound Designer: Durgadas Mitra
Music Composer: Pt. Ravi Shankar
Production Designer: Bansi Chandragupta
Production Company: Satyajit Ray Productions
Festival/Awards:
British Film Institute Awards: Sutherland Trophy (1959)
National Board of Review, USA: Best Foreign Film (1960)
Apu is a jobless former student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college
friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. This changes his life, for when
the bridegroom turns out to be mad, Apu's friend asks him to become the husband. After
initial revulsion at the idea Apu agrees. He takes his exquisite bride Aparna back to
Calcutta. But Aparna dies while giving birth, Apu leaves Calcutta crazy with grief and his
son Kajal is left abandoned with his wife's parents. Only after a long period of total
indifference to worldly responsibilities does Apu become capable of returning to the
world.
Director’s Biography:
Satyajit Ray (May 2, 1921 – April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker,
regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was
born in the city of Calcutta, into a Bengali family prominent in the
world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist,
Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French
filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film “Bicycle Thieves”, during a visit to London. Ray
directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts.
He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music
composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short
stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. He
was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992.
Director’s Filmography:
Agantuk (1991)
Shakha Proshakha (1990)
Ganashatru (1989)
Ghare-Baire (1984)
Heerak Rajar Deshe (1980)
Joi Baba Felunath (1979)
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Krzysztof Zanussi (June17, 1939)
Krzysztof Zanussi was born on June 17, 1939 in Warsaw. His work was noticed during his activities in the amateur film movement
in the 1950s and '60s. Nine of his eleven films received awards, including “Tramwaj do nieba” (Tram to heaven), co-directed with
Wincent Ronisz, awarded the Grand Prix at the Festival of Student Amateur shorts in 1958. He was also awarded for his
graduation film “Śmierć prowincjała” (The Death of a Provincial).
Zanussi's films cannot be considered along any clearly defined track or trend in Polish or international filmmaking. As a director,
he is not subject to others' tastes or styles. The important period of art in Zanussi's life probably took place in the 1970s, when
films including “Życie Rodzinne” (Family Life), “Za ścianą” (Behind the Wall), “Iluminacja” (Illumination), “Barwy ochronne”
(Camouflage) and “Spirala” (Spiral) were produced.
He is also a member of the European Film Academy Board, the Pontifical Commission of Culture at the Vatican and ex-president
of the Eurovisioni Association. He has an honorary doctorate from many renowned universities and gives lectures all around the
world.
Retrospective: Krzysztof Zanussi
2015
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Camouflage
Barwy ochronne
Cast: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine
Paul-Podlasky
1977-106’-Polish-Color-Poland
Screenplay: Krzysztof Zanussi
Cinematographer: Edward Klosinski
Editor: Urszula Sliwinska
Sound Designer: Wiesława Dembińska
Music Composer: Wojciech Kilar
Costume Designer: Anna Biedrzycka - Shepard
Production Designer: Tadeusz Wybult
Production Company: TOR Film Production
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the
science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who
prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal
views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. Finally the deputy arrives for the closing
ceremony, and since he disfavors the line of thought awarded by the recommendation,
tension arises.
Festival/Awards:
New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Special Award
(1981)
Rotterdam International Film Festival: Critics Award
(1978)
Tehran International Film Festival: Best Director (1977)
Polish Film Festival: Grand Prix - Golden Lion, Best
Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Actor. (1977)
Foreign Body (2014)
Revisited (2009)
And a Warm Heart (2008)
Black Sun (2007)
Persona non grata (2005)
The Supplement (2002)
Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
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In Full Gallop
Cwal
Cast: Maja Komorowska, Bartosz Obuchowicz, Karolina
Wajda, Piotr Adamczyk, Piotr Szwedes , Andrzej Szenajch
1996-104’-Polish, Russian, English, Italian-Color-Poland
Cinematographer: Jaroslaw Zamojda
Editor: Marek Denys
Sound Designer: Aleksander Golebiowski
Costume Designer: Elzbieta Radke
Production Designer: Halina Dobrowolska
Production Company: Tor Film Production, Polish TV
Set in Poland in the early 1950s Stalin era, Cwal is an autobiographical piece in which a
young boy is sent from the countryside by his mother to continue his education in the city.
There he lives with an eccentric aunt who has a passion for the 'bourgeois' pastime of
horse-riding, an enthusiasm her nephew comes to share. From her he learns how to cope
with life under Communism.
Festival/Awards:
Polish Film Festival: Best Actress, Critics Award, Special
Jury Prize (1996), Tokyo International Film Festival:
Special Jury Prize (1996), Toronto IFF: Best Actress
(1996), Moscow IFF: Best Actress (1996)
Foreign Body (2014)
Revisited (2009)
Black Sun (2007)
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
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Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Zycie jako smiertelna choroba przenoszona droga plciowa
2000-105’-French, Polish, English-Color-Poland
Editor: Marek Denys
Sound Designer: Katarzyna Dzida
Costume Designer: Jagna Janicka
Production Company: Polish TV, Canal + Poland, Film
Production Agency
The story revolves around a doctor's questioning of his beliefs when he is confronted with
terminal illness. After his work is finished, he returns to Warsaw, where he makes the
unpleasant discovery that he has cancer. His only hope is an expensive operation in Paris
and he is forced to ask his ex-wife for money. Anna (his ex-wife) writes him a cheque, but
when he goes to Paris for the operation, he is informed that his condition has become
inoperable. Facing imminent death, he begins to question the beliefs he has held all his life
and, with a sense of fatalistic liberation, starts to experiment with both his own life and
those of others.
Festival/Awards:
Santa Monica International Film Festival: Best Actor
(2001)
Wine Country Film Festival: Best Actor, Best Director
(2001)
Moscow International Film Festival: Golden St. George
(2000)
Polish Film Festival: Best Actor, Critics Award, Golden
Lion (2000)
Foreign Body (2014)
Revisited (2009)
Black Sun (2007)
Our God's Brother (1997)
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Persona Non Grata
Persona non grata
2005-110’-Polish, Russian, English, Spanish-Color-Poland, Italy, Russia, France
Producer: Iwona Ziulkowska - Okapiec, Leonid
Vereshchagin, Krzysztof Zanussi, Nikita Mikhalkov,
Rosanna Seregni
Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Nikita Mikhalkov, Jerzy
Stuhr, Remo Girone, Daniel Olbrychski
Editor: Wanda Zeman
Sound Designer: Wiesław Znyk
Production Designer: Jagna Janicka
Production Company: Tor Film Production, Three T
Productions, Sintra
Wiktor, the Polish ambassador to Uruguay has just lost his wife Helena to a stroke. His old
friend Oleg, a Russian diplomat who sympathized with Poland’s solidarity movement
when he was posted to Warsaw 20 years ago, turns up at her funeral. Grief-stricken Wiktor
demands to know if Oleg and Helena had an affair. He also thinks Oleg may have been a
Soviet infiltrator in the anti-communist movement. Oleg postpones his answer and
promises to tell Wiktor everything when they meet again in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Festival/Awards:
Polish Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor, Jury Prize
(2005)
Foreign Body (2014)
Revisited (2009)
Black Sun (2007)
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The Constant Factor
Constans
Cast: Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Malgorzata
Zajaczkowska, Cezary Morawski
Cinematographer: Slawomir Idziak
Sound Designer: Wieslawa Dembinska
Costume Designer: Magdalena Biedrzycka, Anna
Biedrzycka - Shepard
Production Designer: Tadeusz Wybult
Production Company: Tor Film Production
Witold is a young electrician who yearns for the purity of mathematics and dreams of
climbing the Himalayan peaks, where his father a noted mountain-climber died under
mysterious circumstances. Instead, he finds himself coming unstuck in a world filled with
petty corruption, confusion, disease and injustice.
Festival/Awards:
Cannes Film Festival: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Jury
Prize (1980)
Polish Film Festival: Special Jury Prize (1980)
Cartagena International Film Festival: Best Screenplay
(1980)
Panama International Film Festival: Grand Prix (1980)
Foreign Body (2014)
Revisited (2009)
Black Sun (2007)
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
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2015
The Illumination
Iluminacja
Cast: Stanislaw Latallo, Malgorzata Pritulak, Monika
Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Edward Zebrowski, Jan
Skotnicki, Irena Horecka
Sound Designer: Wieslawa Dembinska, Witold
Popkiewicz
Costume Designer: Anna Biedrzycka - Shepard
Production Designer: Stefan Maciag
Illuminacja follows the education of a young man from his entry into college to his final
achievement of a doctorate. Paralleling his outer education, his inner education about life,
family, sexuality and spiritual values is revealed. By the time he achieves his doctorate, he
has been told that he has a life-shortening heart disease. However, because of his two-fold
education, he is fulfilled in what he has done and is not much distressed.
Festival/Awards:
Polish Film Festival: Special Jury Prize (1974)
Locarno International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize,
Golden Leopard, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (1973)
Ravenna International Film Festival: Grand Prix (1973)
Foreign Body (2014)
Revisited (2009)
Black Sun (2007)
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The Supplement
Suplement
Producer: Krzysztof Zanussi
Cast: Paweł Okraska, Monika Krzywkowska, Karol
Urbański, Szymon Bobrowski, Michał Sieczkowski,
Tadeusz Bradecki
Editor: Wanda Zeman, Marek Denys
Sound Designer: Wiesław Znyk, Katarzyna Dzida
Torn between a career as a doctor and the monastic life of a priest, Filip agonizingly
wonders if he has truly found his calling or if he’s meant for the secular world. Standing by
while Filip struggles to find the answer within himself, Hanka, his girlfriend, has her own
inner struggle – can she bear to go through the motions of day-to-day life as he keeps her
at a distance, or does her love indeed have limits. At a film set, Filip meets old doctor
Tomasz. An old cynic and an oversensitive youth do not seem a good match, but it is here
that Filip finds spiritual support.
Festival/Awards:
Moscow International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize
(2002)
Foreign Body (2014)
Revisited (2009)
Black Sun (2007)
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Francisco J. Lombardi (August 3, 1949)
Francisco J. Lombardi was born in Tacna, Peru on August 3, 1949. After High School, he moved to Argentina where he studied
at the Film School of the University of Litoral in Santa Fe. After that, he returned to Peru and studied filmmaking at the
University of Lima. In 1974, he produced and filmed a series of short films after founding a film company called “Producciones
Inca Films”. In 1977, he released his first full length film "Death at Dawn” followed by "Immoral Tales" (1978). From there,
Lombardi has been filming continuously until today, completing fifteen feature films. In 2002, the Festival of Lima gave him
“The Spondylus”, the highest honour of the event, in recognition of his career as a filmmaker. In 2004, Lombardi was awarded
the "Irene Diamond, Lifetime Achievement Award" given annually by Human Rights Watch "for his extraordinary
commitment to human rights films". He has also received the Medal of the Pablo Neruda Order awarded by the National
Council for Culture and Arts of Chile for his outstanding contribution to cinema and Latin American culture. His work in films
has been recognized through tributes and retrospectives in various international festivals.
Retrospective: Francisco J. Lombardi
2015
Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Into the Wolf’s Mouth
La boca del lobo
1988-123’-Spanish, English-Color-Peru, Spain
Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Francisco J. Lombardi
Cast: Gustavo Bueno, Toño Vega, José Tejada, Gilberto
Torres, Bertha Pagaza, Antero Sanchez
Screenplay: Giovanna Pollarolo, Gonzalo Herrero,
Augusto Cabada
Cinematographer: José Luis López-Linares
Editor: Juan Ignacio San Mateo
Music Composer: Bernardo Bonezzi
Production Designer: Marta Méndez, Iturriaga
Production Company: Inca Film, New People's Cinema,
Tornasol Films
Festival/Awards:
San Sebastián International Film Festival: Prize San
Sebastián (1988)
After a series of terrorist attacks, an inexperienced army patrol takes control of Chuspi, an
unknown, small and faraway village in the Andes, isolated and frequently harassed by the
terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). The unit is commanded by a brutal
lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, the
soldier Luna must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.
The film shows not only a moral dilemma but also the giant cultural gap amongst the
people from different regions in Peru, with their own values and prejudices. This gap could
explain the fratricide conflict during the 80’s and 90’s in Peru.
Ella (2010)
Un cuerpo desnudo (2009)
Black Butterfly (2006)
What the Eye Doesn't See (2003)
Red Ink (2000)
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (2000)
Don't Tell Anyone (1998)
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Retrospective: Francisco J. Lombardi
2015
Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Under the Skin
Bajo la piel
1996-110’-Spanish-Color-Spain, Peru, Germany
Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Javier López Blanco
Cast: José Luis Ruiz Barahona, Ana Risueño, Diego Bertie,
Gianfranco Brero, Jorge Rodríguez Paz, Gilberto Torres
Screenplay: Augusto Cabada
Cinematographer: Teo Delgado
Editor: Fernando Pardo
Sound Designer: Raúl Lasvignes
Music Composer: Bingen Mendizábal
Production Company: Inca Films S.A., Pandora
Filmproduktion, Tornasol Films
Set in Palle, a dusty, remote village in northern Peru, Percy Corso a police captain finds
himself flirting with and eventually seduced by his darker nature, after he begins the
investigation of a bizarre, gruesome series of ritual killings that may be linked to the
sacrificial rites of an ancient pre-Hispanic civilization. After finding the eyeless heads of
several young men, Captain Corso heads for the office of Catalino Pinto the curator of a
local museum who is also an expert of ancient cultures. It is Pinto who opens the door and
leads Percy to a ruinous path of death, from where nobody can return.
Festival/Awards:
Gramado Film Festival: Best Actor - Latin Competition
(1997)
Havana Film Festival: Best Screenplay, Grand Coral
(1996)
San Sebastián International Film Festival: Best Director
(1996)
Ella (2010)
Un cuerpo desnudo (2009)
Black Butterfly (2006)
What the Eye Doesn't See (2003)
Red Ink (2000)
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (2000)
Don't Tell Anyone (1998)
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