BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"\;Warsaw 44"\; ("\;miasto 44"\;): film screening and post screening discussion with the director\, Jan Komasa - Jan Komasa DTSTART:20170126T180000Z DTEND:20170126T210000Z UID:TALK69858@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:21355 DESCRIPTION:Cambridge Polish Studies and Polish Waves on Cambridge 105 inv ite you to a special "Kinoteka" screening of Jan Komasa's 2014 film _Warsa w '44 (Miasto 44)_ featuring a discussion with the director. The film tell s the tragic story of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 against the German Nazi Occupation.\n\nJan Komasa is an acclaimed young Polish film director and s creenwriter. His 2011 film _Suicide Room (Sala samobójców)_ won various prestigious film awards in Poland.\n\nClick "here":https://www.eventbrite. com/e/warsaw-44-a-film-screening-with-director-jan-komasa-tickets-30948601 099 to register for a free ticket via Eventbrite.\n\nYou can read more abo ut the film at Culture.pl:\n\n"Warsaw entered its fifth year under German occupation in August 1944 with hopes for its final liberation. The Warsaw Uprising became the most intense and tragic of the revolts organised again st the Germans in occupied Europe. In two months of fighting and mass murd er\, about 17\,000 insurgents and over 200\,000 civilians were killed. The Nazis destroyed nearly 90 percent of the city\, leaving Warsaw a sea of r uins by January 1945.\n\n'We want to show the Warsaw Uprising to the world ' - says Jan Komasa\, who wrote and directed the film. The directors's wis h is to 'give the Warsaw Uprising its deserved place in world-wide conscio usness'. The authors of the film describe it as 'a universal story of yout h\, love\, courage and sacrifice\, with special effects by Peter Jackson's and Christopher Nolan's collaborators'. The cast includes Józef Pawłows ki\, Zofia Wichłacz\, Anna Próchniak\, Tomasz Schuhardt\, Maurycy Popiel \, Antoni Królikowski\, Grzegorz Daukszewicz and Jan Kowalewski." LOCATION:Winstanley Theatre\, Trinity College\, Cambridge END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR