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NY: Films by Wojciech Has at Columbia University

October 19, 2017

Films by Wojciech Has, presented by Annette Insdorf, Professor of Film Studies, celebrating the publication of her new book Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has, and her 30 years of full-time teaching at Columbia University, Saturday, October 21, 2017.

3:30 pm: In Szyfry, or Codes (1966), characters are haunted by World War II. An elegant Pole returns from London to Krakow in the mid-1960s to find out how and why his youngest son disappeared during the German Occupation. He tries to get answers from his weary and embittered elder son, played by the great Zbigniew Cybulski. The score is famed Polish composer is by Krzysztof Penderecki. Introduction by Ira Deutchman, Film. Register for Codes - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annette-insdorf-presents-codes…

7:15 pm: Nieciekawa historia, or An Uneventful Story (1983), which Has adapted from Chekhov's short story, stars Gustaw Holoubek as a hyper-lucid man who senses both the meaninglessness of life and his proximity to death. Although the disillusioned doctor has little patience for the mediocrity or hypocrisy of the provincial town where he has taught for thirty years, he retains affection for a young actress who has returned there. Register for An Uneventful Story - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annette-insdorf-presents-an-un…

Annette Insdorf will sign copies of her book—which will be available for purchase courtesy of Book Culture—at 5:30 pm.

The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street (between Broadway and 12th Avenue)