Behind the Window of Crosses: Lithuania
Abstract
The conciliatory message of Tadeusz Konwicki is first of all directed to the nations of Lithuania, Belarus, Russia and Poland; it was founded on the category of common identity. This article contains analyses of four films: Konwicki's How Far, How Near, The Valley of the Issa, Lava and A Chronicle of Amorous Incidents, directed by Andrzej Wajda (adaptation of Konwicki's novel). Kaniecki argues that in these films the “ecumenical” idea is supported, among others, by the cultural diversity of the Vilnius region in the pre-war days and by the synecdoches of the region's three great religions (Catholicism, the Orthodox Church and Judaism). Kaniecki picks out the Jewish element from Konwicki's work to emphasize that although it's a significant component of the author's reflection on the Eastern borderlands, the “ecumenical” message cannot be examined as directed to the Jews as the universal sin of the shared guilt of the Holocaust requires expiation rather than reconciliation.
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Vytautas Žalakevičius, Lithuanian cinema, independenceReferences
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Janusz Gazdakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
independent researcher Poland
Krytyk filmowy, scenarzysta, juror wielu krajowych i zagranicznych festiwali filmowych. Publikował w „Ekranie”, „Filmie”, „Kwartalniku Filmowym”, „Kulturze filmowej”, „Filmie na świecie”, „Kinie”. W latach 1993-1998 był redaktorem naczelnym „Kwartalnika Filmowego”. Prowadził warsztaty pisarskie w Szkole Reportażu - studium przy Wydziale Dziennikarstwa Collegium Civitas. Autor m.in. książki Innokientij Smoktunowski (1975).
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