Rhapsody | Rapsod – dir. Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1988
date: 03/08/2011, time: 11:45, place: The Silver Star Cinema, film program: Grzegorz Królikiewicz, artistic program: filmsPL | 1988 | colour | 16 min
reż|dir Grzegorz Królikiewicz pro|pro Barbara Koczoń, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych Warszawa sce|sc Grzegorz Królikiewicz zdj|ph Cezary Makowski mon|ed Lucyna Dąbrowska, Krystyna Tunicka-Palluth ob|cast Wilhelm Dziadecki dys|dis Filmoteka Narodowa
Rhapsody is a poetical story about a symbolical funeral of a war hero, Jan Piwnik “Ponury”, that couldn’t be publicly mentioned in Poland before 1988. The three day and three night ceremony included funeral rites deriving both from Christianity and from pagan Slavonic cults.
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