Retrospective of Wojciech Hass work in New York

The Polish Cultural Institute New York is partnering once again with BAMCinématek to present the first comprehensive New York retrospective of the Polish master filmmaker Wojciech Jerzy Has in over fifteen years. This retrospective, running Oct 15 - 27, will feature Has's complete feature filmography. It builds on previous successful collaborations between the Polish Cultural Institute New York and BAMCinématek, including the first US retrospective of Jerzy Zulawski in 2012 and the biennial festival Kino Polska: New Polish Film, and coincides with the 50th anniversary of Has's masterpiece The Saragossa Manuscript.

Wojciech Jerzy Has (born in Kraków, Poland in 1925) is a feature film director. He graduated from the Kraków Film Institute and also studied painting. From 1947-57 he made a number of documentary shorts and educational films, and his feature film debut was 1958s The Noose. He is best known for How to Be Loved (1962), for which he won the Polish Film Critics Award and as well as prizes at the San Francisco and Beirut film festivals, The Saragossa Manuscript (1964), which won prizes at the San Sebastian, Edinburgh and Sitges film festivals, and The Hourglass Sanitarium (1973), which won prizes at Cannes and the Grand Prix in Trieste. His other films include Farewells (1958, prizes at the Locarno and London film festivals), Roommates (1960), Parting (1961), Gold (1962), Codes (1966), The Doll (1968).

Has's most known classics will also be shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. (Oct. 11 - Oct. 25) Click here for more information and schedule.

A prior retrospective of Hass work, The Waking Dreams of Wojciech Jerzy Has, took place at the Harvard Film Archive (April 10 to May 30, 2015). The film descriptions below are adapted from texts by Haden Guest for the Harvard Film Archive.

Wojciech Has retrospective is presented by BAMcinematek in collaboration with Polish Cultural Institute New York.

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