From culture.pl:
Lisa and Walter, a German couple, travel from America to Europe on a transatlantic liner. He is an employee of an international organization, and she hides – even from him – her past as a guard of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In London, a mysterious passenger who reminds Lisa (an outstanding performance by Aleksandra Śląska) of one of the camp prisoners, Marta (played by Anna Ciepielewska, whose performance was awarded at the International Film Festival in Los Alamos), boards the ship. Memories that had long been repressed slowly resurface. Several years prior, Lisa, a loyal SS servicewoman, tried to discipline Marta according to all of the SS’s “pedagogical rules” – to no avail. Thus begun a complex psychological game between the victim and the perpetrator. The German supervisor failed to break the rebellious women, who probably died. Or perhaps, she survived the turmoil of the war? Perturbed by the meeting with the passenger, Lisa confesses to her husband the truth about her past, but it is not the full truth.

1.37GB | 1h 00mn | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/9EE771926D4E3F7/Pasazerka_(1963)_Andrzej_Munk.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/4A64215E5F0EDB3/Pasazerka_(1963)_Andrzej_Munk.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/C05E4D5ABD0E502/Pasazerka_(1963)_Andrzej_Munk.part2.rar

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:Japanese, English (custom)

The post Andrzej Munk & Witold Lesiewicz – Pasazerka AKA Passenger (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In the seventeenth century, Father Suryn arrives in Ludyn, a village on what was then the eastern border of Poland, to perform exorcisms on the Ursuline nuns who are allegedly possessed by the devil. While trying to drive evil spirits out of the body of the prioress, Mother Joan, Father Suryn starts experiencing uncomfortably secular and sensual feelings towards her.

One of the most celebrated achievements of the Polish Film School, this is not a war drama like Andrzej Wajda’s Kanal or Andrzej Munk’s Eroica but a religious and psychological study. Screenwriters Tadeusz Konwicki and Jerzy Kawalerowicz, the latter also directing the film, took a novella by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and retold the famous narrative of the possessed nuns in the French monastery of Loudun by transferring it to 17th century Poland and emphasizing its universal dimension.

This universality on screen is accentuated by the film’s ascetic form, achieved by limiting the set design to just a few sacred and secular buildings, situated in a desert landscape. The black and white images by cinematographer Jerzy Wójcik are dominated by shades of grey, symbolising the ambiguity of reality. Mother Joan of the Angels is a masterfully executed film, with outstanding acting by Lucyna Winnicka and Mieczyslaw Voit, whose characters touch on many problems. The clash between religious dogma and human nature is only one of them.

1.80GB | 1 h 49 min | 756×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8F11FA8FE90F54E/Mother.Joan.of.the.Angels.1961.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Matka Joanna od aniolów AKA Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.