POLISH FILM CLUB 'OKO'

NEXT FILM: August 18, 2010 7:30 PM The Peretznics (Perecowiczowie) Dir. Slawomir Grunberg, 2009.   Here is the trailer for the film on YouTube. The events of March '68 are still somewhat obscure in Poland. The political background is known, as are the film archives, and press coverage. However, little is known about how it was to grow up in Poland of the sixties as a Polish Jew, or as a Pole of Jewish origin. How it was to be a kid in the heart of a country still recovering from a horrific war, in a family severed by the Holocaust, and then to come of age and experience first loves at the outbreak of the disturbing March events. The experience of the 'Peretz School' pupils in Lodz in some way reflects the experience of the Jewish minority in Poland in the 50 and 60 of the previous century. It is the experience of adolescents nevertheless, who were much more interested in the Beatles than they were in politics. It was the latter, however, which caused for most of ...

NEXT FILM: July 21, 2010 • Wednesday 7:30 pm 'EVERYTHING FOR SALE' Wszystko na Sprzedaz Elzbieta Czyzewska , a great star of Polish movies and television of the 1960s, died on June 17, 2010 in New York. Film Club OKO presents 1969 film ' Everything for Sale ' as a tribute to her. Here is a video-clip from the movie 'Wszystko na sprzedaz' (this clip is in Polish only, but you can see the actress; Club OKO version has English subtitles). Here is a link to New York Times 6/18/2010 obituary for Elzbieta Czyzewska. Here is a link to Nowy Dziennik 7/15/2010 article 'A Step into one filmmaker's reality'. Here is a link to Gazeta Wyborcza 7/12/2010 article (in Polish) 'Elzbieta Czyzewska'. Inspired by the tragic death of the great Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski, the film focuses on behind-the-scenes lives of a director and his actors when they are disrupted by the mysterious death of their leading man. Director: Andrzej Wajda Starring: Elzbi...

June 16, 2010 • Wednesday, 7:30 pm 'The lost Requiem' Polish Film Club OKO invites everyone to the screening of the documentary "The Lost Requiem" by Khosrow Sinai (DVD 1980, 80 minutes. In Farsi with English subtitles) The film tells the story of the World War 2 era Poles coming to Persia from the Soviet gulag camps in Siberia. The filmmaker follows the life of several individuals, while describing the general fate of several hundred thousand former Polish prisoners. Introduction: Roxanne Emadi; discussion after the film. ________________________________________ It turned out to be rather large 'club' - there is obviously a hunger for this kind of information, because we had the house packed. Several former Siberian exiles came, some of their family, friends and many people simply interested in the stories of people deported to Siberia during the WW2. While the fate of the people whose lands were occupied by Hitler is generally well known, because it was ...