The best films by Andrey

Movie: Mephisto

Directed by: István Szabó
Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer
Based on: Mephisto

A German stage actor rises to fame playing Mephisto in a Faustian drama as the Nazis come to power. While friends and colleagues suffer under the regime, he compromises his values for success — only to realize too late the true cost of his ambition.

Winner – Best Foreign Language Film, 54th Academy Awards (first Hungarian film to win)
Host: Andrey
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Organizational info:
We are going to meet in one of these places; please check during the day of the meeting in case the location changes.

• Cafe literacka — located in the bookstore; ask the bar attendant where the movie room is located. They have great cakes and salads, OK beer and sinfully cheap table wine.
• Poli — great and cheap multitap craft beer bar with food and cocktails.

About the organizer:
Paweł is a local city, cultural and food tour guide in Kraków since 2007. Initially his knowledge about Polish films was average, but when he discovered how useful movies are as educational tools to talk about Poland, things changed. He started to focus more on important movies about Polish history. In November 2015 he decided to share this not only during his work as a professional tour guide, but also with the Couchsurfing community and all culturally hungry people, totally for free. Since then Paweł joined the Polish Film Academy, attended many lectures, constantly reads about Polish cinema and developed his true passion.

At one point Paweł screened several Polish low-budget productions inviting people who were involved in production, but it was difficult to find such movies regularly. If you would like to screen your movie or a friend's movie, let him know.

When, after almost 90 years, Poland finally got its first Oscar (the foreign language film category), Paweł organized screenings of "Ida" in cinemas twice. In his opinion the English subtitles were very much censored, which he thinks is a key reason why this movie got the Oscar. His first impression about one screening was terrible: 60 people in the hall, many of them seeing a Polish film for the first time; at least half were eating chips and making noise with plastic packages, and one person even opened yogurt and started to eat a regular supper. Paweł thought it would be a huge failure and that people probably expected easy entertainment, American-style action or comedy, but at the end of the screening there were about two minutes of total silence and then huge applause. Paweł thinks that something very important happened that night and those emotions made the project valuable.

Each movie is followed by Paweł's or his friend's introduction. Sometimes they also screen very rare and almost impossible-to-find online interviews with the director. All materials have English subtitles. Sometimes the screening is connected with a tour in a museum or around the city if the topic is related. Integration in English & party.

Tags: #cinema #arthouse #localcinema #polishmovie #polishcinema #kinastudyjne #film #movie #krakow
Location: Krakow