Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

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LET´S BREAK THE DANCE

Roman Polański

Poland, 1957, 8 Min

PWSFTViT Łódż

Required to shoot a short documentary as part of his directing course, Polanski decides to film a party staged specially for the shoot. The “film project” turns into a full-blown extravaganza. But then things take a fatal turn...

Filmformat
35mm | s/w / b/w

Drehbuch
Jan Rutkiewicz

Kamera
Marek Nowicki, Andrzej Galinski

Musik
Krzysztof Komeda

Darsteller
Jan Rutkiewicz

Produzent
Maciej Żuralski

Produktion
PWSFTViT Łódż

Kontakt
PWSFTViT Łódż

Roman Polański - born 1933 in Paris, of Jewish-Polish descent. After the end of the war he worked for radio and theatre and wrote radio plays for children. He studied directing at PWSFTViT in Łódż from 1954 to 1959, emigrated to the USA in the 1960s and now lives in France and Poland.

Movies
NÓŻ W WODZIE (1962)
REPULSION (1965)
CUL-DE-SAC (1965)
THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (1967)
ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968)
MACBETH (1971)
CHE? (1973)
CHINATOWN (1974)
LE LOCATAIRE (1976)
TESS (1979)
PIRATES (1986)
FRANTIC (1988)
LUNES DE FIEL (1992)
THE DEATH AND THE MAIDEN (1994)
THE NINTH GATE (1999)
THE PIANIST (2002, Cottbus 2002)

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