Shadow

Shadow (Polish: Cień) is a 1956 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

The plot consists of a Rashōmon-like investigation into the life of a man found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, policemen and a medical examiner begin to piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war and one in contemporary Poland. In each, the victim seems to have been a mysterious, ambiguous presence, of shifting loyalties and suspicious connections, who invariably set himself against the ruling powers of the time. Critics of the day attacked the film for its depiction of a world rife with secret agents and hidden enemies - a favorite Stalinist theme - yet the film seems rather to insist on how heroism or villainy are so often matters of point of view and timing.

Cast

• Zygmunt Kestowicz - Knyszyn
• Adolf Chronicki - Karbowski
• Emil Karewicz - Jasiczka
• Ignacy Machowski - Shadow
• Tadeusz Jurasz - Mikula
• Boleslaw Plotnicki - Railwayman
• Bohdan Ejmont - Officer
• Marian Lacz - Stefan
• Zdzislaw Szymanski - Peasant
• Halina Przybylska - Village Woman
• Antoni Jurasz - Lt. Antoni
• Wieslaw Golas - Underground Soldier
• Barbara Polomska - Stefan's Friend
• Stanislaw Mikulski - Blonde
• Roman Klosowski - Witold

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish language films

References

External links

• Shadow at the Internet Movie Database

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