Artyści w filmach kina moralnego niepokoju
Artists in Films of the Cinema of Moral Anxiety

Summary/Abstract: The second half of the 1970s saw the birth of a trend in Polish cinematography later described as the cinema of moral anxiety. Films created as part of this trend grew directly out of a specific socio-political reality. On the one hand, they spoke of universal values such as truth and goodness, to which they owe their universality and topicality, and on the other hand, they showed the reality of Poland in the 1970s. Although not an absolute rule, the plot of films of moral anxiety was often set in intellectual, journalistic and artistic circles. However, the theatres, ballrooms and television corridors described in the films were a metaphor for the Polish People’s Republic. By setting the action in artistic and creative circles, especially rather mediocre ones, among small-town masters of ceremonies, heads of small student theatres, provincial actors, it was possible to circumvent the bans and slip under the censors’ radar. All the problems and conflicts occurring in the real life of all people living in a real socialist country were reflected in these films. They all faced similar situations, being oppressed by cliques and arrangements in the workplace and in public life.

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