When Poor Poles Not Only Look At Ghetto: Andrzej Wajda’s “Holy Week”
Abstract
That’s a very penetrating study of artistic and critical attitudes on Jerzy Andrzejewski’s short story Holy Week and Andrzej Wajda’s film adaptation. The tragic lot of Warsaw ghetto is written into the history of the city and into the fate of people on the two sides of the wall but – as Katarzyna Wajda stresses – it also became the subject of propaganda and ideological manipulations. Andrzejewski did not avoid it but Wajda came off it lightly although was not spared biting remarks from both sides. We can see how difficult time it was and how difficult or even impossible it is to be objective, and how easy it is to fall into extremes when verdicts are issued.
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Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw ghettoReferences
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Katarzyna Wajdakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Absolwentka filologii polskiej na UJ, studentka filmoznawstwa, autorka pracy magisterskiej o wojennych filmach Andrzeja Wajdy, doktorantka w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych UJ. Interesuje się związkami kina z polityką.
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