Małgorzata Braunek

은빛 지구는 역사상 가장 획기적인 SF영화가 됐을지도 모른다. 막대한 예산, 사색을 불러일으키는 각본, 대담하고 예술적인 영상은 걸작의 탄생을 약속했다. 그렇다면 대체 왜 당시의 공산주의 영화계 결정권자들은 촬영 완료까지 2주밖에 남지 않은 상황에서 제작을 중단시켰을까? 경제적 이유였을까? 아니면 정치적이거나 예술적인 이유? 혹은 개인적 이유였을까? 이 영화의 파편들은 30여 년 전과 변함없이 지금도 제작진의 감정을 자극하고, 관객에게 영감을 준다. 이 다큐멘터리는 폴란드영화의 가장 큰 미스터리이자 가장 위대한, 그러나 실현되지 못한 꿈에 관한 이야기다.

The Deluge Redivivus is a new remastered cut of the original Polish “The Deluge” from 1974 that was released for the film's 40th anniversary in 2014.

The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him.

Friends of different generations, practicing different professions, spend together their summer holidays at the seaside every year. It is sunny; they look carefree and happy. They know each other very well, they are used to each other. To such an extent, that bore becomes inevitable. It is boredom that incites them to play a dangerous game. The end is dramatic: a young boy gets killed. It is the moment to draw the bottom line. The question is: Isn't the death of the spirit worse than of the body?

On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off on a journey to consult with his artistic role model, Albrecht Dürer. Although Ratgeb has always tried to stay out of the political conflict, his journey brings him face-to-face with peasant revolutionaries and the brutality and violence of their daily lives.

40-year-old engineer Marek Kołodziejski comes to his hometown after fifteen years. He wants to take revenge on his friends who kicked him out of the band for appropriating the authorship of the project.

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.

18세기 폴란드, 민중들은 전쟁으로 끔찍한 고통을 겪고 있다. 이 혼란스런 시기에 한 정체 불명의 남자가 외딴 수녀원을 찾아 이곳에 감금 중이던 정치범 야쿱을 꺼내준다. 야쿱은 함께 탈출한 수녀와 함께 집으로 돌아가려 하지만 이 여정에서 기이하고 끔찍한 일들을 겪으며 점차 광기에 휩싸인다. 인간들의 잔혹한 본성을 호러 장르의 화법으로 적나라하게 묘사한 안제이 줄랍스키의 초기 대표작.

제2차 세계 대전 중 나치의 폴란드 점령기 시절, 독일군 병사들이 미할의 집에 쳐들어와 아내와 아들, 어머니를 학살한다. 숲속에 숨어있던 미할과 그의 아버지는 목숨은 건졌지만 가족의 학살을 막진 못했다. 미할은 저항군에 합류하기로 결심하지만, 합류하기도 전에 게슈타포에게 들켜 쫓기는 신세가 된다. 게슈타포를 피해 도망치던 중 미할과 비슷한 복장을 입은 사람이 미할로 오인돼 대신 체포되며 추격전은 끝나게 된다. 총소리를 듣고 나온 아파트 주민으로 보이는 임산부는 게슈타포에 체포된 남자를 보며 울먹인다. 체포된 남자가 그녀의 남편이기 때문이다. 그 장면을 목격한 미할은 자신 대신 체포된 남자보다, 그 남자의 아내인 임산부를 보고 더 놀란다. 임산부의 외모가 얼마 전 학살당한 자신의 부인과 너무도 닮았기 때문이다. 게슈타포가 떠나간 뒤 임산부에 집에 들어가 보는 미할, 임산부는 출산이 임박했는지 고통스러워한다. 미할은 얼떨결에 그녀의 출산을 돕게 된다. 출산이 끝나자 미할은 긴장이 풀렸는지 아님, 게슈타포가 쏜 총에 맞은 어깨 출혈 때문인지 혼절하게 된다. 이번엔 반대로 임산부가 미할의 어깨총상을 치료해 주며 미할을 간호한다. 자신 대신 체포당한 남편에 대한 죄책감 때문일까? 아님 죽은 아내와 너무 닮아서일까? 미할은 발진티푸스 센터에서 백신을 만들기 위해 번식되는 실험용 '이'에 피를 공급하며 식량배급을 받는다. '이'에게 피를 빨려 식량배급카드를 받고, 그 식량으로 임산부에게 밀가루와 감자를 나눠준다. 미할대신 남편이 잡혀갔음에도 여자는 게슈타포에 사실을 알리지 않고 미할이 주는 밀가루와 감자를 받아 생활한다. 미할은 여자와 갓난아이를 보며 잃어버렸던 가족을 다시 만나는 듯한 기묘한 체험을 하게 된다.

A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.

In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland. A journalist who came to the Island to make a report about political summit that takes place there gets involved in the clash between young rebels and establishment.

Wlodek is a young man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Wlodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Wlodek upon his return home.

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, with greater or lesser conviction.

A 12-year-old boy (Gregorz Zuchowicz) and his father embark on a fishing trip where the boy hopes to get to know his father better. When a young woman leaves her boyfriend after a quarrel, the father invites her along on the trip. The boy's hopes of a father-and-son retreat are shattered when it becomes obvious dad is after more than fish. The girl's boyfriend finally returns for the girl as the son watches the two men face off from his position above on a sand dune. Sadly, the boy goes off by himself to fish while his father is busy with other things in this drama of a boy's realization of the harsh realities of the adult world.

A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope and decides to kill himself. This depressing tale of alienation, doubt and uncertainty was the Polish entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968.