L'ART D'ETRE AIMEE

By : Wojciech J. Has

With : Barbara Krafftowna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Artur Mlodnicki
POLOGNE, 1963, DVD 9, 4/3 - 101 min
Zone 2, noir et blanc,


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English title: HOW TO BE LOVED
Original title: JAK BYC KOCHONA

Directed by : Wojciech J. Has

With : Barbara Krafftowna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Artur Mlodnicki
Poland, 1963, DVD 9, 4/3 - 101 min
Zone 2, black and white

Original Polish version with French subtitles

BONUS: Chaptering · Filmography · Restored master · analysis by Jacques Mandelbaum (LE MONDE) (11 min.)

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, but suffers most from not having any audience for his vanity, ego and supposed bravery. After the war he leaves her but finds out that he has been accused of cowardice. He finally commits suicide and she clears herself of a collaboration charge and eventually becomes a popular actress.

The film, based on a novel of the same name by Kazimierz Brandys, examines the emotional casualties of war, which is perhaps the central theme of the Polish Film School. On a deeper level, the film manages to construct a personal tragedy that results from a struggle of egoism and cowardice versus devotion and courage.

Golden Gate Award for Best Film, Best Female Role for Barbara Krafftówna and for Best Screenplay at the San Francisco Film Festival, 1963
FIPRESCI Prize at the International Film Festival in Beirut, 1964
Film magazine Readers Award, Golden Duck (Zlota Kaczka), 1963


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