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To Play, To Imitate, To Embody. On Acting in a Biographical Film

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KOŁOS S.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

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2016

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vol. 19

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issue 28

75-94

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Kołos Sylwia, To Play, To Imitate, To Embody. On Acting in a Biographical Film What does an actor do in a biographical film? This question may seem inane, or at least less than serious; however, the terms frequently used to describe and assess the actors work in general - to embody a character, to play them, to play a role - suggests the existence of a certain designatum, which is the point of reference for the role. In the case of a fictional story, we may ignore the semantic multivalence of such terms. In a biographical film, however, the existence of a real originator of the role gives additional, almost ontological meaning to phrases such as “embodying a character” or “playing a role”. In my reflections, I use as my starting point the assumption that the actors performance in a biographical film and the “conception of a character” result from two basic components: 1. Interpretation of the role - constituting a proposal to analyse the heros character. It is usually supposed to extract more profound meanings and senses out of the biography. To put it more simply, the interpretation of the role is supposed above all to help the viewer to answer the question of who the hero was (what they were like) and why? 2. Adaptation - this includes the physicality of the character: their appearance, body language, facial expressions, voice (the tone, modulation, accent, phrasing, dialect - if the authentic person used one, etc.) In my article I try to answer the questions: Where should we seek the essence of biographic acting? How can we avoid exaggeration and falsehood, which could kill the role?

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Filmowe wcielenia Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego

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Szpulak A.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2019

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issue 32

301-322

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Szpulak Andrzej, Filmowe wcielenia Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego [Film Incarnations of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 301–322. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.16. The text concerns two film biographies of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, an outstanding and legendary poet of the Second World War killed in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. The films Fourth Day by Ludmiła Niedbalska (1984) and Baczyński by Konrad Piwowarski (2013) were subject to a comparative analysis. It covered genaelogical issues, the poet’s biography and a presentation of his work. The analysis shows the extreme difference in creative concepts, and thus the various possibilities that the biographical film faces.

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Z mého života: když má film právo na všechny postavy dějin

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Kupková M.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2015

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vol. 12

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issue 24

155-170

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Biographical film is a genre that acquired specific importance within the Czech film industry at the beginning of 1950s. It combined local particularity of Czech film culture, spontaneous and politically controlled inclination towards the revivalist tradition, authoritarianism of Zdeněk Nejedlý, the cultural ideologist, as much as Soviet cultural influence. The article focuses on a specific example of such type of film production, a film called Z mého života (From my life, Václav Krška, 1955) about Bedřich Smetana, a significant Czech composer of the 19th century. The initial research aim is to cover various factors that influenced the final style of the film. The text examines its connections to outer social and historical discourse, and proceeds from a summary of development in contemporary biographical film production, to changes within the cult of Bedřich Smetana during the first half of the 20th century, to the ideological nature of the given film. The article studies the way these long-term and current factors influenced the style and narrative of the film. Through one of the direct participants — Jiří Mařánek as the author of subject matter and script — it also reconstructs rival interests of power of both generational, professional and political character. This focus mediates partial but authentic insight into the nature and processes within Czech culture in its post-February stage. The research is based primarily on archive documents of film production, Jiří Mařánekʼs personal resources and media reception of the period.

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To Play, To Imitate, To Embody. On Acting in a Biographical Film

Filmowe wcielenia Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego

Z mého života: když má film právo na všechny postavy dějin