Afterimage

Original title: Powidoki

“The Artist Who Opposed The Soviet Dictatorship.”

• 2016
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• 1h 38m
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• 12

• Drama
• History

★ 6.5 TMDB Rating · 86 votes

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Release date

Oct 22, 2016

Original language

Polish

Origin

Poland