“All people are conformists just like you and I” – this is one of the lessons that a young linguist, Jarek Kruszyński, learns from his senior colleague, associate professor Jakub Szelestowski. The lessons are taught at a linguists’ summer camp in which the two scientists take part. Jarek, a young idealist who on one hand learns very soon how corrupted and intellectually shallow the scientific milieu is, while on the other hand, he also learns that he is not free from hypocrisy himself.
One of the greatest works of the Cinema by the Moral Concern Movement with the great part of Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as a contemporary Mephistopheles. The director, Krzysztof Zanussi, intended to make this story of the seduction of a young idealist into a discourse on nature and culture but the contemporary audience chose to interpret the scholarly milieu as a metaphor for Poland of the 1970s, a system deprived of ethical foundations which created cynics and conformists. As the director later remarked: “the reality presented on the screen has altered only in some details since”...
One of the greatest works of the Cinema by the Moral Concern Movement with the great part of Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as a contemporary Mephistopheles. The director, Krzysztof Zanussi, intended to make this story of the seduction of a young idealist into a discourse on nature and culture but the contemporary audience chose to interpret the scholarly milieu as a metaphor for Poland of the 1970s, a system deprived of ethical foundations which created cynics and conformists. As the director later remarked: “the reality presented on the screen has altered only in some details since”...