ABC Book
directed by Wojciech Wiszniewski (Elementarz, Poland 1976–81, colour, duration: 8 min. – original version with Italian subtitles)
Wiszniewski was considered the most talented director of his generation. Drawn by the taboo topic of Stalinism, he developed the creative documentary formula, seeking to compose his images and sounds in such a way that they would convey the essence of the mechanism of communist oppression. ABC Book's nine minutes are his masterpiece in this genre.

followed by
 
The Eighth Day Of The Week
directed by Aleksander Ford (Ósmy dzień tygodnia, Poland/East Germany, 1958–83, 83 min. – original version with Italian subtitles)

In Warsaw in the late 1950s, Piotr and Agnieszka are two young lovers in search of a place where they can be alone, but the conditions in which they live do not allow them a great deal of intimacy. Presented at the Venice Film Festival in 1958, the film was banned on account of the realism with which it portrays the living conditions of the era and it was not screened in Poland until 1983. Director Aleksander Ford, one of the fathers of Polish postwar cinema, was to meet a decidedly more dramatic fate. A victim of the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968, he emigrated to the United States and ended up committing suicide there.

Informazioni

Admission free while places last. Places will be assigned from one hour before the start of each screening. Reservations may be made by membership card holders only. There will no further admission once the event has started.

Sala Cinema

Admission via steps in via Milano 9a