Provincial Actors
Aktorzy Prowincjonalni
Agnieszka Holland
A director from Warsaw goes to a theatre in the countryside to direct Liberation by Stanislaw Wyspianski, and gives the main role to Krzysztof, the most talented actor in the theatre group. But a difference of artistic opinion arises between the actor and director...
With : Anka Halina Labonarska, Krzysztof Tadeusz Huk
Screenplay : Agnieszka Holland, Witold Zatorski
Image : Jacek Petrycki
Music : Andrzej Zarycki
Screenplay : Agnieszka Holland, Witold Zatorski
Image : Jacek Petrycki
Music : Andrzej Zarycki
Production : Films Polski pour "Zespoly Filmowe"
Distribution: Films Polski
Distribution: Films Polski
A scriptwriter and director, Agnieszka Holland (1948) studied at the FAMU in Prague under Milos Forman and Ivan Passer. In 1971, she returned to Poland where she worked as assistant to Zanussi and Wajda until she began as a her own career as a director with Provincial Actors, which won the FIPRESCI Award in Cannes in 1980. "A veritable protest against the inability to act, manipulation and moral paralysis, this first film depicts with precision, intelligence and subtlety the life of a provincial theatre, where there reigns an atmosphere of mediocrity due to disappointed hopes and disillusionment of its actors" (B. Michalek). "I don't know if I succeeded, but I wanted to show not the mechanics of manipulation but rather human destiny, with all of its complications and perturbations. I wanted to place the accent on the existential and not social side of things" (A. Holland).