The Beads of One Rosary
Paciorki Jednego
Kazimierz Kutz
The Habryka family lives in a miners town in Silesia. Their life proceeds at the same pace as the earth. But the new development plan anticipates the demolition of their neighbourhood and the construction of apartment buildings. The old miner declares that he won't leave his home...
With : Augustyn Halotta, Marta Straszna, Ewa Wisnieska
Screenplay : Kazimierz Kutz
Editing : Jozef Bartczak
Music : Wojciech Kilar
Screenplay : Kazimierz Kutz
Editing : Jozef Bartczak
Music : Wojciech Kilar
Production : Atelier de Cinéma Kadr, Studio de Longs Métrages, Lodz
Distribution: Film Polski
Distribution: Film Polski
The son of a Silesian miner, Kazimieri Kutz (1929) directed, with The Beads of One Rosary, the last of his Silesian trilogy (after Salt of the Black Earth and Pearl in the Crown), all three filmed in his native Upper Silesia, a region of mining and heavy industry but also, according to Kutz, "the only place in Poland where Prussian solemnity and the Slavic sense of humour and irresponsibility are combined." Through the presentation of an old miner's revolt against being thrown out of his house, The Beads of One Rosary is an accusation against the old Polish authorities who took away the individual autonomy, and by this a sign of its director's belonging to the "cinema of moral anguish". The Silesian Trilogy constitutes an original artistic achievement by Kutz, bringing together universal questions and regional folklore. Language, work, and the childhood home constitute the spiritual baggage of the film's heroes, from which they draw their strength and inner liberty" (T. Lubelski).