Film

Afterimage

Name: Afterimage
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Released: 2016
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Bogusław Linda, Aleksandra Justa, Bronisława Zamachowska, Zofia Wichłacz, Krzysztof Pieczyński

2016 · 98 min · ★ 6.7 · Dir. Andrzej Wajda

The Artist Who Opposed The Soviet Dictatorship

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.