A documentary record shot on the 24th and 25th July 1944 of the concentration camp in Majdanek. Comparable to Resnais' Nuit et bruillard, it's filled with images of such staggering awfulness that they take on an almost abstract quality - one might regard the images of mountains of shoes, spectacles and hairbrushes as beautiful if one was unaware of the horrifying reality behin...
Polish writer/director Aleksander Ford's Eighth Day of the Week takes an astonishing anti-Communist stance--the first of many that would compel Ford to leave his homeland after a general governmental crackdown on personal expression in 1968. Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play a married couple who fall through the cracks of Red bureaucracy in Warsaw. The film does not ende...