Polish Film Lotna

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 18, 2008

Harrison Kash

(417) 625-9614

 

JOPLIN (SNS) - The 46th Annual International Film Festival will feature Lotna (Poland, 1959) at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 26 in Cornell Auditorium, at Missouri Southern State University.

 

The film is free and open to the public.

Award winning director Andrzej Wajda made this film as a visually arresting and sweeping tribute to the heroic horsemen who faced German tanks during World War II.

 

It is a striking, allegorical account of the disappearance of cavalry from modern warfare and the effect an off-white horse, named Lotna, has on various soldiers and officials in a Polish regiment.

 

The film is important for being “exceptionally beautiful from the pictorial point of view, and definitely one of (Wajda’s) greatest film achievements” ( wrote Liehm and Liehm in The Most Important Art).

 

For more information call (417) 625-9614 or visit http://www.mssu.edu/film/filmhome.htm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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