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Pornografia

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  • 1h 57m
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Irena Laskowska, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Anna Baniowska, and Sandra Samos in Pornografia (2003)
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Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
948
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  • Director
    • Jan Jakub Kolski
  • Writers
    • Luc Bondy
    • Gérard Brach
    • Witold Gombrowicz(novel)
  • Stars
    • Krzysztof Majchrzak
    • Adam Ferency
    • Krzysztof Globisz
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  • Director
    • Jan Jakub Kolski
  • Writers
    • Luc Bondy
    • Gérard Brach
    • Witold Gombrowicz(novel)
  • Stars
    • Krzysztof Majchrzak
    • Adam Ferency
    • Krzysztof Globisz
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    • 4User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 11 wins & 7 nominations

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    Krzysztof Majchrzak
    Krzysztof Majchrzak
    • Fryderykas Fryderyk
    Adam Ferency
    Adam Ferency
    • Witoldas Witold
    Krzysztof Globisz
    Krzysztof Globisz
    • Hipolitas Hipolit…
    Grazyna Blecka-Kolska
    Grazyna Blecka-Kolska
    • Mariaas Maria…
    Grzegorz Damiecki
    Grzegorz Damiecki
    • Waclawas Waclaw…
    Jan Frycz
    Jan Frycz
    • Siemianas Siemian…
    Irena Laskowska
    Irena Laskowska
    • Ameliaas Amelia…
    Sandra Samos
    Sandra Samos
    • Heniaas Henia…
    Anna Baniowska
    • Weronikaas Weronika…
    Kazimierz Mazur
    • Karolas Karol
    Jan Urbanski
    • Skuziakas Skuziak…
    Magdalena Rózczka
    Magdalena Rózczka
    • Sitting Room Landladyas Sitting Room Landlady
    Henryk Niebudek
    • Hansas Hans…
    Dariusz Toczek
    Dariusz Toczek
    • German Soldieras German Soldier
    Jerzy Chojnowski
    • Gustawas Gustaw
    Mariola Kukula
    Mariola Kukula
    • Servantas Servant
    Henryk Tomczyk
    • Stelmachas Stelmach
    Michal Jasinski
    • Farmhandas Farmhand
    • Director
      • Jan Jakub Kolski
    • Writers
      • Luc Bondy
      • Gérard Brach
      • Witold Gombrowicz(novel)
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    Storyline

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    Polish countryside during WWII: Witold, the narrator, is at a gathering of his intellectual artist friends in Warsaw, where he meets Frederick, a mysterious, but charming, stranger. They hit it off, so he invites Frederick along as he goes to visit the home of his friend Hipolit and his wife Maria. Witold and Frederick become obsessed with arranging the coupling of Hipolit's beautiful teenage daughter, Henia, and an equally beautiful young man, Karol, who is working at the farm. But Henia is engaged to Vaclav, who is visiting with his deeply religious mother, Amelia. As the two middle-aged gentlemen scheme, Germans fight with the Polish resistance, led by Siemian, in the woods nearby. Hipolit supports the resistance and his household is thrown into chaos when he is ordered to "liquidate" Siemian to prevent him from talking if he's captured by the Germans. Meanwhile, Frederick's obsession with Veronika, a pretty young maid at the house, masks a dark secret from his past. —Josh Ralske
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    • lift skirt
    • panties hit the floor
    • panties pulled down
    • fondling
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    • Genres
      • Drama
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      • War
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      • Not Rated
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      Final film of Irena Laskowska.

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    3/10
    Spielberg should sue
    What on earth could have possessed the NY Film Festival selection committee to inflict this pretentious, boring, derivative, ugly and silly piece of third-rate filmmaking on its audience? Because it's Polish and we haven't had a lot of worthwhile Polish movies since Kieslowski? Has it come to that?

    The film takes Witold Gombrowicz's long-winded but intermittently fascinating classic novel and superimposes a gratuitous (and fatuous) Spielbergesque holocaust plot line, to make it all, I guess, more compelling. The effect is glaringly contrived and (as with the far better Spielberg original) offensively trivializing.

    In case anyone misses the point, the holocaust plot overlay involves a doomed little girl and, at the dénouement, a shift to a black-and-white background against which is displayed, in color, a talismanic link to her. Sound familiar? Spielberg should sue.

    The sad thing is that there is some talent at work here. Though the plot is gratuitously confusing, meandering, and contrived, the use of a country house around which a low-intensity conflict between Germans and Polish partisans swirls obliquely is effective, with the fighting intruding suddenly into and then just as suddenly vanishing from the playing out of the protagonists' humdrum idleness and self-absorption. Grayzna Blecka-Kolska gives a performance that almost transcends the clichés written into her role as the quietly tipsy châtelaine, and the two young people who are the objects of the middle-aged protagonists' dirty-old-man obsessions (Gombrowicz's central plot line, if no longer Kolski's) look as if they might have been far more effectively used in some other movie, one in which they were given something to do beyond standing around and looking beautiful (which they are, it should be said). But on the whole, this is an over-the-top, pretentious dud, the sort of thing that should be seen only by the paid critics who then have a professional obligation and civic duty to spare all the rest of us such an irritating waste of our time.
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    • Mengedegna
    • Oct 9, 2003

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    • Release date
      • October 17, 2003 (Poland)
    • Countries of origin
      • Poland
      • France
    • Language
      • Polish
    • Also known as
      • Pornography
    • Filming locations
      • Nowa Sucha, Mazowieckie, Poland
    • Production companies
      • Canal+ Polska
      • Canal+
      • Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • PLN 9,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $37,834
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 57 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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