Kina

During the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly come alive and begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre.

Historia Kina W Popielawach is a bucolic family tale, full of irony and heavily entwined with the invention of the moving picture. The narrator is a ten-year old boy who, during the sixties, is sent from the town to visit his grandparent's village, Popielawy. Roughly one hundred years before – almost a quarter of a century before Edison and the Lumiere Brothers – the village blacksmith invented a cinematographic apparatus by which he was able to project images drawn onto the bladders of fish and pigs, making them "come to life." A hundred or so years later, …