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    Walkover

    Walkover

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    June 4, 2011

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    Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. With Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Krzysztof Chamiec
    Poland 1965, 35mm, b/w, 77 min. Polish with English subtitles

    Skolimowski wrote and stars again in this follow-up and loose sequel to Rysopis, which also follows a day and a half in the life of a disaffected hero, now a middle-weight boxer drifting across Poland hustling his way into amateur tournaments. A brooding farewell to youth, Walkover also delivers a satiric critique of Polish bureaucratic paternalism that depicts Church and State as strangely theatrical and alienating realms. Set against the ominous background of massive State-run factories, Walkover makes dramatic use of the moving camera to choreograph movement across and within the frame and to give a symbolic charge and complexity to its mise-en-scene.

    Preceded by: Little Hamlet / Hamles (1960, b/w, 35mm, 8 min.), an early film by Skolimowski made while a student at Lodz Film School.


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        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        June 4, 2011

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        9pm

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