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The Codes
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Wikipedia article
'The Codes' is the English title for 'Szyfry', a Polish film released in 1966, directed by Wojciech Has.
Plot
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 Eichlerwna) and two sons, Maciek (Zbigniew CybulskiDirectory of World Cinema, Volume 8 edited by Adam Bingham, v. 8 p. 15) and Jedrek, who disappeared when he was 17 years old.
Tadeusz returns to Krakw to discover if Jedrek may be alive. His wife and son Maciek were members of resistance was it possible that the second son may have been the traitor?
During Maciek's struggle to explain to his father their history during German occupation, questions arise concerning collaboration with the Gestapo and retribution by the Home Army. Has pictures the mystical lost boy in a dark fairy-tale forest, full of the war's ghosts and wholesale executions. The hypnotic quality of these excursions foreshadows the mesmerizing passages of Has' later film, 'The Hour-Glass Sanatorium'.
Cast
*Jan Kreczmar as Tadeusz
*Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek
*Ignacy Gogolewski as Doctor Gross
*Irena Horecka as Aunt Helena
*Janusz Klosinski as Antiquary
*Adam Dzieszynski as Receptionist in 'Hotel Polski'
*Irena Eichlerwna as Zofia
*Janusz Gajos as White monk
*Barbara Krafftwna as Jadwiga
*Zofia Merle as Forester's daughter
*Kazimierz Opaliski as Pieczara
*Irena Orska as Neighbor
See also
*Cinema of Poland
*List of Polish-language films
References
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