Madmen and Unknown Soldiers
Abstract
The starting point of the article is that in Poland – as in other countries in the east of the Polish-German border – the memory of World War I is constituted differently than in Western Europe, where the war is still considered to be a historical disaster. For Poland the end of the war meant the restoration of independence after 123 years of occupation. The war with Russia, which followed soon after, made a much greater mark in the collective consciousness of Polish society. The author analyses surviving Polish films from the silent film era depicting the Great War and the Polish-Soviet war from the point of view of the political objectives of the young state and strengthening the myth of Marshal Piłsudski as a national hero, in the context of disputes over cultural functions of cinema.
Keywords:
Great War, silent film, Józef PiłsudskiReferences
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Teresa Rutkowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Editor-in-chief of Kwartalnik Filmowy; translator. She is employed at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Film and Audiovisual Arts at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). She publishes articles in Kwartalnik Filmowy and book reviews in the monthly magazine Nowe Książki. Her areas of interest include the film narration and the relationship between image and word in film.
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