Andrzej Wajda - Lotna (1959)

This highly symbolic movie is both the director\'s tribute to the long and glorious history of the Polish cavalry, as well as a more ambiguous portrait of the passing of an era. Wajda was the son of a Polish Cavalry officer who was murdered by the Soviets during the Katyn massacre.
The horse Lotna represents the entire Romantic tradition in culture, a tradition that had a huge influence in the course of Polish history and the formation of Polish literature. Lotna is Wajda\'s meditation on the historical breaking point that was 1939, as well as a reflection on the ending of an entire era for literature and culture in Poland and in Europe as a whole. Writing of the film, Wajda states that it \"held great hopes for him, perhaps more than any other.\" Sadly, Wajda came to think of Lotna \"a failure as a film.\"
The film remains highly controversial, as Wajda includes a mythical scene in which Polish horsemen suicidally charge a unit of German tanks.


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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053019/

Language: Polish
Subtitles: English, French, Russian, Polish (idx/sub)

My rip of a Polish DVD posted by furste at KG