Abstract

This article examines two Polish films from the 1980s, Wielka majowka (“The Big Picnic”, 1981) directed by Krzysztof Rogulski and Czuje sie świetnie (“I Feel Great”, 1984) directed by Waldemar Szarek, which cast Maanam, one of the most popular Polish bands of that period. I present these films in the context of a dominant representation of artists in Eastern European cinema and of Polish Romanticism, which endows artists with a specific role, arguing that this approach is to some extent different to what we typically observe in western biopics. Together, these two films show that while in the 1980s filmmakers in Poland recognized the commercial potential of using rock music and rock stars in films, they were not fully aware of the advantages of making biopics according to the western formula or did not care about these advantages. 10.5429/2079-3871(2017)v7i1.5en

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