‘Optimism against all odds’: Polish National Identity in War Films of Jerzy Passendorfer

‘Optimism against all odds’: Polish National Identity in War Films of Jerzy Passendorfer

‘Optimism against all odds’: Polish National Identity in War Films of Jerzy Passendorfer Using archival sources, movie reviews, secondary sources and films, this article examines the cinema of Jerzy Passendorfer, the founding father of action movies genre in People’s Poland, but also the staunch s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mikołaj Kunicki
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences 2017-12-01
Series:	Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa
Subjects:	Polish history communism Polish cinema Jerzy Passendorfer memory of World War Two National Communism
Online Access:	https://journals.ispan.edu.pl/index.php/sn/article/view/1343

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