Polsko-czeskie i polsko-słowackie kontakty filmowe
Polish–Czech and Polish–Slovak Cinematic Contact

Contributor(s): Ewa Ciszewska (Editor), Mikołaj Góralik (Editor)
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Czechoslovak cinema; Czech cinema; Slovak cinema; Polish Cinema; film education; cultural transfer; socialist cinema; film adaptation; film studies
Summary/Abstract: This book is the first monographic study of Polish–Czech and Polish–Slovak cinematic contacts, covering as it does all historical periods from before World War II to the present day. The first part of the book is composed of articles taking a broad look at such topics as the vicissitudes of Polish–Czech cinematic co-operation in the interwar period (Iwona Łyko) and after 1945 (Joanna Szczutkowska), the contact between Polish and Czechoslovak television from the 1950s to 1989 (Jakub Jiřiště), and film education in the three neighbouring countries (Ewa Ciszewska). The second part focuses on individual films and includes the article on film adaptation of End of the Lonely Farm Berghof, a novel by Vladimír Körner (Mariusz Guzek), the adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov by Petr Zelenka (Joanna Wojnicka), Peter Solan’s The Boxer and Death (Tomáš Hučko) and the nearly forgotten Polish–Slovak co-production A Short Life by Zbigniew Kuźmiński (Jarosław Grzechowiak). The final part comprises studies on such topics as the reception of Andrzej Wajda’s films in the Czechoslovak press (Jadwiga Hučková), documentary films by Pavel Barabáš on the Tatra Mountains (Mateusz Żebrowski), and a comparative analysis of the image of the secret services in Dogs by Władysław Pasikowski and Red Captain by Michal Kollár. The final text in the book is an interview by Katarzyna Figat of the film director Janusz Majewski concerning his extensive experience of co-operation with Czechoslovak cinema artists.

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