"Meeting on the Atlantic" (1980), dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Sail aboard Batory at Kinoteka!
About the event
Set off on a voyage aboard the legendary “Batory”!
We invite you to the film “Meeting on the Atlantic” directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Screening as part of the Mocne Nocne Granie series.
Tickets for the March 20 screening are available here: here
“Meeting on the Atlantic” seems like a late, luxurious, colorful variant of the famous “The Train” from the Polish Film School period. As the film’s professor says: “One does not choose an era, one adapts to the era.” The passengers of the transatlantic liner meet a solitary sailor from Norway, crossing the ocean alone. They ask him: “Are you free?”, as if they themselves, Poles, were doomed to collectivity.
On board the luxurious passenger liner “Batory” Poles returning from America to their homeland meet. Each of them travels with life baggage, lighter or heavier. The men apparently share a past uncomfortable for the professor. The lonely singer is courted by a libertine. During shared meals, walks and sunbathing the passengers observe one another and speculate about each other. For some of them this will be the last journey of their lives. In the finale everyone will turn out to be someone different than they seemed at the start of the voyage — a drama of characters, according to the author’s genre description.
Among the characters:
- Captain of the ship, pre-retirement age, suffering from insomnia and headaches (Gustaw Lutkiewicz).
- A professor of geriatrics, avoiding his passionate wife (Ignacy Gogolewski).
- The professor’s wife: Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska.
- An acquaintance who is a doctor: Marek Walczewski.
- A lonely singer: Małgorzata Niemirska.
- A priest caring for an old emigrant.
The screenplay authors are Jerzy Kawalerowicz and Bolesław Michałek, a film critic and literary director of the X and TOR film teams, screenwriter of “The Gorgonowa Case” (1977) and “Swan Song” (1988), president of FIPRESCI, Poland’s ambassador to Italy, called the ambassador of Polish cinema.
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