Cinema
Cinemas ( kino ) are cheapish (GBP2-3/US$4) and generally comfortable. They can be found in almost every town in Poland, however small, showing major international films (especially anything American) as well as the home-produced ones. Only foreign films for children are dubbed into Polish (since they may have problems reading subtitles), otherwise films will be subtitled. The month's listings are usually fly-posted up around town or outside each cinema with the titles translated into Polish (the Warsaw Insider has a useful, regularly updated list of the original titles next to the Polish translations). The film's country of origin is usually shown - WB means British, USA American. Based around the famous Lodz film school, postwar Polish cinema has produced a string of important directors, the best known being Andrzej Wajda , whose powerful Czlowiek z zelaza (" Man of Iron ") did much to popularize the cause of Solidarity abroad in the early 1980s. As in all the ex-communist countries the key issue for Polish film-makers used to be getting their work past the censors: for years they responded to the task of "saying without saying" with an imaginative blend of satire, metaphor and historically based parallelism whose subtle twists tend to leave even the informed Western viewer feeling a little perplexed. In the case of Wajda and other notables like Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieslowski , though, a combination of strong scripting, characterization and a subtle dramatic sense carries the day, and all these directors enjoy high prestige in international film circles. In the 1990s, the picture looked a little different, concerns over the censor now replaced by the more conventional film-maker's headache of securing funding (whatever else the communists did wrong, they did, as some directors ruefully recall now, guarantee a level of film financing) and responding to a profoundly changed political and social reality. Post-communist efforts like Krzysztow Kieslowski 's award-winning The Double Life of Veronique , his masterful Red, White and Blue trilogy, and Wajda's Korczak pointed towards an artistically productive future for Polish cinema, although the local public showed more enthusiasm for the kind of home-grown historical blockbusters that rarely won international prizes. The outstanding example of this was Jerzy Hoffman 's 1999 adaptation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's patriotic novel With Fire and Sword , an extravagant costume drama that soon became the most succesful Polish film of all time - but sank without trace outside the country.
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