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Trapped by bureaucracy: Kieślowski, his masters and the making of Urzᶏd
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Authors: Anna Misiak
DOI: 10.1386/sfs.5.1.21_1
Keywords
Kurt Weber,Kazimierz Karabasz,Jerzy Bossak,Bureaucracy,Polish cinema,Krzysztof Kieślowski
Abstract
This article identifies those film-makers who supervised Kieślowski when he was working on Urzᶏd. It demonstrates that he creatively surpassed his documentary tutors’ tactics of portraying the communist society and this is why the short’s caricature of bureaucracy has stood the test of time.
