The Codes
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| The Codes | |
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| Directed by | Wojciech Has |
| Written by | Andrzej Kijowski |
| Starring | Jan Kreczmar Zbigniew Cybulski Irena Eichlerówna |
| Music by | Krzysztof Penderecki |
| Cinematography | Mieczysław Jahoda |
| Release date(s) | 1966 |
| Running time | 80 min |
| Language | Polish |
| IMDb profile | |
The Codes is the English title for Szyfry, a Polish film released in 1966, directed by Wojciech Has.
Tadeusz (Jan Kreczmar) is a Polish veteran of World War II who fled to London at the end of the war, leaving behind his wife Zofia (Irena Eichlerówna) and son, Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), who disappeared when he was 12 years old. Tadeusz returns to Kraków to discover that Maciek is alive, his wife may have been a partisan and that his son may have turned in his own mother in to the authorities. During Maciek's struggle to understand his parents' history, questions of collaboration with the Gestapo and Home Army retribution arise. Has pictures the mystical lost boy in a dark fairy-tale forest, full of the ghosts of the war and wholesale executions. The hypnotic quality of these excursions foreshadows the mesmerizing passages of Has's later film, The Hour-Glass Sanatorium.
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[edit] External links
- The Codes at the Internet Movie Database
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