Abstract
The article presents the problems of private life of intellectuals in Poland “after Yalta” through the prism of the cinema. The biggest problem of people in the 1950s and 1960s was the lack of a satisfying home. The homes of young intellectuals shown in Polish films are the spectrum of dreams, most often impossible to achieve in real life. Apartments located in multi-family housing estates that immortalized in the Polish feature films between the years 1956–1970 are confirmation of the highest quality of Polish industrial design. Real people’s apartments were cramped, ugly, and primitive.
Highlights
The article presents the problems of private life of intellectuals in Poland “after Yalta” through the prism of the cinema
I shall be concerned with movies seemingly insignificant in comparison with the masterpieces of the “Polish Film School”, but it was mainly the Polish drama film that reflected “small stabilization” the spiritual and material condition of the Polish intelligentsia
92 barbara lena gierszewska thanks to the outstanding stage written by Tadeusz Różewicz Świadkowie albo nasza mała stabilizacja [Witnesses or Our Small Stabilization] published in 1962
Summary
The article presents the problems of private life of intellectuals in Poland “after Yalta” through the prism of the cinema. In the period of the Polish People’s Republic the homes of Poles living in cities were located primarily within the blocks of flats constructed in a mass scale.
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