Young directors had no choice but to throw themselves into writing scripts. That did not have a positive effect on the quality of Polish cinema.
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Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.Andrzej Wajda
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
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One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
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With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
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