What was this movie?
02-23-08, 08:22 PM
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What was this movie?
I saw the movie at a university film series in the early 80s. I was just learning to broaden my tastes, and saw a weird foreign film.
It was about the last days of some heroic communist revolutionaries. Black and white, subtitled. I remember one scene in a bar where one man bitterly names each of their dead comrades and lights a glass of liquor for each name. The movie ended by going into full surrealism, with a white horse walking through a formal state dance in a ballroom. Ambassadors and countesses just waltzed around the horse. Our hero gets gunned down by police in the street.
I once asked a film instructor about it, and he said that the horse in the ballroom was a moderately famous scene, but he couldn't remember the name of the movie.
It was about the last days of some heroic communist revolutionaries. Black and white, subtitled. I remember one scene in a bar where one man bitterly names each of their dead comrades and lights a glass of liquor for each name. The movie ended by going into full surrealism, with a white horse walking through a formal state dance in a ballroom. Ambassadors and countesses just waltzed around the horse. Our hero gets gunned down by police in the street.
I once asked a film instructor about it, and he said that the horse in the ballroom was a moderately famous scene, but he couldn't remember the name of the movie.
02-23-08, 09:16 PM
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I'm almost positive that it's Andrzej Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds".
Last edited by Sondheim; 02-23-08 at 09:21 PM.
02-23-08, 09:22 PM
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Sounds like something from the Czech New Wave of the '60s, but the horse scene isn't ringing a bell. Maybe the phenomenal Ucho (The Ear) by Karel Kachyna. It had something like a ballroom scene, but I don't remember a horse. Anyway, the film wasn't actually released until the late '80s, after being suppressed by the government at the time of its production.
Edit: me12321 is right, but I don't remember those scenes.
Edit: me12321 is right, but I don't remember those scenes.
Last edited by Norm de Plume; 02-23-08 at 09:37 PM.
02-24-08, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by me12321
I'm almost positive that it's Andrzej Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds".
http://www.criterion.com/asp/release...§ion=essay
It makes me want to see the movie again, and maybe understand it this time.
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