Shadow (1956 film)

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Shadow
Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Starring Zygmunt Kęstowicz
Adolf Chronicki
Distributed by KADR
Release dates
 1956
Running time
 98 minutes
Country Poland
Language Polish

Shadow (Polish: Cień) is a 1956 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Plot

The plot involves a Rashōmon-like investigation into the life of a man who has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland. In each account, the victim seems to have been a mysterious, ambiguous presence, of shifting loyalties and suspicious connections, who set himself against the powers that be.

Critics attacked the film for its depiction of a world rife with secret agents and hidden enemies—a favorite Stalinist theme—while the film seems, rather, to demonstrate how heroism and villainy are often matters of point of view and timing.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Shadow". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-02.


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