Third Part of the Night 1971 Andrzej Zulawski

Third Part of the Night 1971 Andrzej Zulawski





Poland 1971

Length / Main Feature: 102 minutes

Sound: Original mono (restored)

Colour

1.66:1 widescreen

Language: Polish



Video: XVID 672x432 25.00fps [Stream 00]

Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps [Stream 01]







Trzecia cz─?┼?─? nocy (The Third Part of the Night, 1971) is a film by Andrzej ┼╗u┼?awski, the enfant terrible of Polish Cinema. It is also a film about the Γ??Polish experienceΓ??, but one made by a filmmaker too young to remember the War. It was made in 1971, before the so-called Polish Γ??cinema of moral concernΓ?? of Holland, Kieslowski and Zanussi. It is based (in part) on the life of ┼╗u┼?awskiΓ??s father, Miroslaw, during the Second World War. It is perhaps the first (and probably the last) film about Weigl Institute in Lwow. But above all else, it is the debut film of one of cinemaΓ??s true visionaries.



Excerpt from Daniel Bird essay found in the liner notes





World War II Poland: a man gets a second chance. Michal's wife and child are killed by German soldiers, but in a nearby town he discovers and stays with a woman in labour who looks just like his dead wife. A complex and surreal work, the film is obsessed with the distinctions between love as self-preservation and self-sacrifice. But it's just as much the hallucinations of a dying man. Images of death are everywhere: endless corridors, figures framed in doorways (and later in coffins), a couple gunned down in bed. Not an easy film to come to terms with because of its cerebral nature and its self-consciousness; a haunting first feature, all the same.