"Rzodkiewki" Janusza Morgensterna

• Authors: Marek Hendrykowski

Title variants

EN

Janusz Morgenstern’s „Radishes”

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Janusz Morgenstern’s „Radishes” Marek Hendrykowski’s essay presents the importance of Janusz Morgenstern’s early short film Radishes made after Stalin’s death, in 1954 as a student work produced by Film School in Łódź. The main character, old worker Gruliński loses his clear hopes and human illusions. The pesimistic conclusion is closed further by the simultaneous description of the hero’s social image within a discourse of origins and the sacred which evacuates analysis of class conflict and sociological approach in the narrative of an “ordinary good man” brutally disturbed in his desires and works by the irruption and power of an omnipotent destructive stalinist “red tape” bureaucracy. The poetics of Radishes is deeply influenced by the style of an Italian neorealism, first of all by its famous masterpiece, Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. (1952).

EN

Marek Hendrykowski’s essay presents the importance of Janusz Morgenstern’s early short film Radishes made after Stalin’s death, in 1954 as a student work produced by Film School in Łódź. The main character, old worker Gruliński loses his clear hopes and human illusions. The pesimistic conclusion is closed further by the simultaneous description of the hero’s social image within a discourse of origins and the sacred which evacuates analysis of class conflict and sociological approach in the narrative of an “ordinary good man” brutally disturbed in his desires and works by the irruption and power of an omnipotent destructive stalinist “red tape” bureaucracy. The poetics of Radishes is deeply influenced by the style of an Italian neorealism, first of all by its famous masterpiece, Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. (1952).

Keywords

PL

student film; etude; short feature; film style; poetics; narrative; narration; voice-over; Italian neorealism; social drama; hero; character; socialist realism; Stalin's era

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 19
• Pages: 89-93

Dates

published

2012-01-13

Contributors

author

Marek Hendrykowski

• Katedra Filmu, Telewizji i Nowych Mediów UAM

References

• Filmówka. Powieść o łódzkiej Szkole Filmowej, pod red. K. Krubskiego, M. Millera, Z. Turowskiej, Warszawa [b.d.w.], s. 26.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2012.19.09