Kościół, partia, cenzura. „Ostatnie kuszenie Chrystusa” i zapomniane transakcje polskiej transformacji
Church, party, censorship. The last temptation of Christ and the forgotten transactions of the Polish transformation

Summary/Abstract: In 1988 Polish Catholic bishops tried to convince leaders of the Polish United Workers’ Party to ban The Last Temptation of Christ, a film by Martin Scorsese in Poland. In November 1989, during the first months of the new government, led by the non-communist Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the Diocesan Curia of Olsztyn forced a local cinema to ban a screening of Scorsese’s film by referring to decisions allegedly made by the former communist government. These events, a kind of exchange of favours between the party and the church, are presented in context of Polish People’s Republic foreign policy, its approach to the Catholic Church and the dissemination of Western auter cinema in late 1980s Poland.

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