director Henryk Kluba
screenplay Wiesław Dymny
director of photography Wiesław Zdort
music Zygmunt Konieczny
with Franciszek Pieczka, Ryszard Filipski, Stanisław Gronkowski, Teresa Kamińska, Marian Kociniak, Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
awards
Grand Prix, Golden Grape, at the Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów, 1985
Cinematography Award and Best Actor Award for Franciszek Pieczka and Students Award of the Łódź Film School in Łagów, 1972
[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]
Bolączka: How come the devils are dancing on Ochodzita? Muskała: They start dancing when they sense blood in the air. Bolączka: They’re dancing round the three pines. Górniok: I can’t see nothing. Bolączka, see what’s moving down there. Muskała: That’s probably those devils from Ochodzita. Czarny: The People’s Army, the armed limb of the working people.
KRZYSZTOF MĘTRAK, A BALLAD ABOUT REBORN LIFE [BALLADA O ODRADZANIU SIĘ ŻYCIA], ‘FILM’, 1972, NO. 19
Kluba represents a lyrical attitude to history when telling about life being born again in the Silesian Beskid Mountains after the wartime calamity. However, what’s most interesting in his film is that this poetic-surrealistic-ballad-brigand folk agit-prop with all its accessories (evil spirit – saboteur, village dunder-head, choir, emissary of good cause – strong leader) is in fact a treatise on social engineering, focusing on the problem: the authorities versus the society (…). This diversity of meanings, present throughout the picture, is fascinating and infuses ‘The Sun…’ with an aesthetic effect.
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