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Bookmark this pageThe Third Part of the Night (1971)
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
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From Time Out Film Guide
World War II Poland: a man gets a second chance. Michal's wife and child are killed by German soldiers, but in a nearby town he discovers and stays with a woman in labour who looks just like his dead wife. A complex and surreal work, the film is obsessed with the distinctions between love as self-preservation and self-sacrifice. But it's just as much the hallucinations of a dying man. Images of death are everywhere: endless corridors, figures framed in doorways (and later in coffins), a couple gunned down in bed. Not an easy film to come to terms with because of its cerebral nature and its self-consciousness; a haunting first feature, all the same.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Cast: Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski, Jan Nowicki full cast
Duration: 106 mins
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