Teatr Różewicz: The Card Index / The Card Index Scattered. Rehearsals

Theatrical plays from Poland on DVD
Teatr Różewicz: The Card Index / The Card Index Scattered. Rehearsals
by Tadeusz Różewicz, Konrad Swinarski - director

Number of disks: 1
Format:  4:3
Audio: DD 2.0
Run Time: 165 minutes
Language version: Polish
Subtitles: Polish, English, French, German, Russian
Cast: Henryk Borowski , Ryszard Hanin , Tadeusz Lomnicki , Boleslaw Plotnicki , Zbigniew Skowronski , Jarema Stepowski , Danuta Szaflarska 
Region: 2 (PAL). European or multi-system DVD player is required to see this DVD.

About this DVD:

This DVD includes two complete performances of Tadeusz Różewicz, plays: Recording Television Theatre performance of "Kartoteka" (The Card Index), directed by Konrad Swinarski in 1967 for Polish Television Theatre, and "Kartoteka rozrzucona. Próby" (The Card Index Scattered. Rehearsals), directed by Tadeusz Rozewicz in 1992-1993 year for the Polish Stage Chamber Theatre in Wroclaw.

"The Card Index", directed by Konrad Swinarski is regarded by critics as a classic, almost exemplary staging of  Różewicz's drama. The play seems is an extremely faithful reproduction of the world presented in Różewicz's play, with a great role by Tadeusz Lomnicki. "The Card Index Scattered. Rehearsals" is a unique recording of television drama. In autumn 1992, the Polish Stage Chamber Theatre in Wroclaw, and Tadeusz Rozewicz - author of the play,  decided to update original text of "The Card Index". This treatment consisted in the decomposition of the old version of drama and folded it again. The astonishing result is documented on tape.

About Tadeusz Różewicz:

Tadeusz Różewicz (born 9 October 1921 in Radomsko, Poland) is a Polish poet and writer. Różewicz belongs to the first generation born and educated after Poland regained its independence in 1918. His youthful poems were published in 1938. During the Second World War, like his brother Janusz (also a poet), he was a soldier of the Polish underground Home Army. Unlike Janusz, who was executed by Gestapo in 1944, Tadeusz survived the war and by the time of his literary debut in 1960, he was the author of twelve highly acclaimed volumes of poetry. He has since also written over fifteen plays. This eruption of dramaturgical energy was also accompanied by major volumes of poetry and prose. Różewicz is considered one of Poland's best post-war poets and most innovative playwrights. Some of his best known plays include: The Card Index, The Interrupted Act, Birth Rate, The Hunger Artist Departs, and White Marriage. His New Poems was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2008.

About Konrad Swinarski:

Konrad Swinarski (1929-1975) - one of Poland's most acclaimed film directors and scenographers. He started his creative career as an assistant to Bertolt Brecht. Subsequently he was connected with Warsaw's theatres: the Wspólczesny, the Ateneum, the Wielki, and also with the Stary Teatr (Old Theatre) in Cracow. His renowned theatre productions include Zygmunt Krasinski's Romantic 'Nie-boska komedia' (The Un-divine Comedy, 1965), Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' (1970), Mickiewicz's 'Dziady' (Forefathers' Eve, 1973), and Wyspianski's 'Wyzwolenie (Liberation, 1974). He directed productions in Norway, Israel, Finland, the USA and other countries. He also directed television plays. He was a professor at the Cracow Academy of Drama. He died in a plane crash on his way to Iran. Was awarded with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1974.