The Eighth Day of the Week(Ósmy dzień tygodnia)
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Poland, West Germany · 1958
1h 23m
Director Aleksander Ford
Starring Sonja Ziemann, Zbigniew Cybulski, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Ilse Steppat
Genre Drama, Romance
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Polish writer/director Aleksander Ford's Eighth Day of the Week takes an astonishing anti-Communist stance--the first of many that would compel Ford to leave his homeland after a general governmental crackdown on personal expression in 1968. Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play a married couple who fall through the cracks of Red bureaucracy in Warsaw. The film does not endeavor to preach, merely to present a matter-of-fact glance at how little the individual matters when confronted with mountains of red tape. Upon its completion in 1958, the government refused to allow Eighth Day of the Week to be shown in Poland; it would not been seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
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