Afterimage 2016

The Artist Who Opposed The Soviet Dictatorship.

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Drama

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.

Release Date 2016-10-22
Runtime 1h 38m
Directors Andrzej Wajda, Paweł Edelman, Alexander Denysenko
Producer Michał Kwieciński
Writers Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Mularczyk