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Year 1573. Nobleman and Calvinist Sieniawski interrupts the baptism of another child of the Catholic Bielecki family. The godfather, young nobleman Jan Bielecki, swears revenge on the Calvinist. He sets out for King Sigismund Augustus, but when he reaches his court, the king dies. The new ruler, Henry Valois, provides his subjects with religious freedom. Bielecki and other Catholics feel betrayed by the king. There is a pogrom against followers of other religions.

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The Jewel of Free Conscience is the metaphorical name for a Parlament law passed in 1573. In reality, the document was called the Warsaw Confederation and was a legislative rarity on the scale of 16th century Europe. This is because it provided religious tolerance for “nobles, royal burghers and personally free people.” Unfortunately, lawmakers forgot about the lower states. Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s film is a kind of tribute to the famous law. The plot is based on Jan Bielecki, a youthful poem by Juliusz Słowacki. The axis of its intrigue is the conflict between the Sieniawski and Bielecki families. Królikiewicz transferred the story of this dispute to the screen.

Klejnot.wolnego.sumienia.1981.NTK.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264-rip35@RSG.mkv

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The post Grzegorz Królikiewicz – Klejnot wolnego sumienia AKA The Supreme Value of a Free Conscience (1983) 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.

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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.