Dead Class
General Information
- Original Title
- Umarla Klasa
- Author/Creator
- Wajda, Andrzej, director.
- Language
- Polish.
- Subtitles
- English, German, French, Italian, Spanish; Castilian
- Published
- Poland, 1976.
- Physical Description
- DVD-ROM (72 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00004530
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Andrzej Wajda documents the "hair-raising spectacle" of Tadeusz Kantor's most famous work “Dead Class”, which won an Obie Award for its 1979 performance at La Mama. Here, in the crucible of Krakow's Krzysztofory Gallery, where the work premiered, Kantor incites and conducts the psychosis at the core of personal and collective memory – memory shaped in this case by the traumas of two World Wars, the Holocaust, and the eradication of the Jewish part of Polish culture – and he pushes his avant-garde poetic into its final phase, the "Theatre of Death."
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Title Translation
- Dead Class
- Note
- Donated by the Arts and Culture Program, CEU
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Call Number | Status | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | FL Record 2886 | Available | - | - |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 2886 (HU_OSA_00004530.mp4) | Available | Access Copy, MP4 format |