Cwal (1996)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Krzysztof Zanussi

Guionista:

Krzysztof Zanussi (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

29 abril 1996 (Poland)

Plot Keywords:

Politics | Horse Show | Secret Police | Horse | Denmark

Premios:

4 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The story of some good people with a 'bourgeois' love of horses under repressive PZPR Stalinism

Reparto

Maja Komorowska	...	Aunt Ida
Bartosz Obuchowicz	...	Hubert
Karolina Wajda	...	Rozmaryna
Piotr Adamczyk	...	Ksawery
Piotr Szwedes
Andrzej Szenajch
Halina Gryglaszewska
Slawomira Lozinska
Stanislawa Celinska
Krystyna Bigelmajer
Agnieszka Warchulska
Grzegorz Warchol
Jan Prochyra
Stephen Kember
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew

También conocida como:

At Full Gallop
Cwał (Poland)
In Full Gallop

Duración:

104 min

País:

Poland

Idioma:

Polaco

Color:

Color

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | France:U

Compañía:

Polish TV

The story of some good people with a 'bourgeois' love of horses under repressive PZPR Stalinism

"Cwal" ("At Full Gallop" or "In Full Gallop"), is the story of a collection of good people living under the USSR-supported Stalinist-Communist single-party government of the Polish United Worker's Party (the 'Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza', or the 'PZPR') in the former 'People's Republic of Poland' (the 'Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa', or the 'PRL'), a satellite state of the Soviet Union.

This film, apparently largely based on the real childhood experiences of the director, Krzysztof Zanussi Zanussi (1939-, "Persona non grata" (2005), "Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease" (2000)), shows just some of the suffering caused by the misguided Communist politics of 'class' envy and the resentment of 'bourgeois' hobbies in the former Eastern bloc (see Ksawery).

The good people of Poland are repeatedly denied and repressed as when Hubert is not permitted by the state to accept harmless packages from his father in England and when his eccentric Aunt Idalia (the beautiful and talented Maja Komorowska of Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Dekalog, jeden" and "Dekalog, dwa" (1989), Zanussi's "Kontrakt" (1980) and Andrzej Wajda's "Wesele" (1973) fame...) cannot easily (or legally) indulge in her 'bourgeois' passion of horse riding without winning the assistance of an ironically overfed government Minister or a pompous 'Socialist hero' the type of General Rossokovsky.

I would highly recommend this very entertaining and emotive film to anyone, including - no, especially - the Socialists of all parties.