Based on the life of avant- garde painter and theorist Władysław Strzemiński, the film chronicles his struggles against expulsion from state institutions, and erasure from a nation’s collective memory.

In his final film, Wajda returns to previously explored themes of personal and artistic resistance to an authoritarian state and ideology.

Based on the life of avant- garde painter and theorist Władysław Strzemiński, the film chronicles his struggles against expulsion from state institutions, and erasure from a nation’s collective memory, as a result of political and artistic convictions that were at odds with the official Stalinist post-war doctrine.

In Polish with English subtitles.

Screening for Andrzej Wajda's Centenary, in partnership with Kinoteka on Tour, part of the 24th Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.