Third part of the night

Third part of the night ( Trzecia część nocy ) is a Polish film of Andrzej Żuławski left in 1971

Synopsis

The action occurs during the Second world war. The woman, the mother and the son of Michal were killed after her return to live with her family in the countryside, which followed its cure of typhus. His/her father and went for at this time a walk in the forest to him. Michal met Helena, his future wife while coming as a raising device from meters in the apartment where she lived with Helena Jan. left Jan to bind with Michal, found to him an employment as feeder lice. After the birth of their son, Lukasz, Michal decided to also nourish sick lice, which brings back more money than work with the healthy insects. He succumbs to the disease.

After the death of his wife and her son, Michal returns to the city. By a hazardous coincidence, it is in a house where an expectant mother lives, Marta, whose husband was removed. It attends the birth of the boy and sends both in a monastery, where his/her sister, Klara accommodates there. It is thereafter obliged to leave the places (and to die in a camp with the elderly which it kept). Michal lives in this time in a strange doubt, disturbed by the physical resemblance of Marta and his wife. Having learned however that the husband of Marta is always alive, it goes to the hospital where this last is to try to help it to release itself. He is assassinated there by a gendarme.

Comment

For this film, Zulawski made use of the experiments of his/her father, Miroslaw Zulawski, working during the Second world war at the Weigl Institute with Lvov. One implemented at it a method of fight against the Typhus, by raising sick lice for then extracting a vaccine against the disease from it. The insects were to be nourished of human blood: thus approximately 10.000 people were brought to nourish the lice, which was in addition an unquestionable means not to be off-set (professor Weigl worked for the German army).

For Zulawski, this film was born from a number of doubts with regard to the cinematographic art in general, the films of war in particular, and its own biography. The action occurs roughly at the time from the birth from the realizer, and invites it to wonder which would be its own behavior in this type of circumstances.

Data sheet

Realization: Andrzej Żuławski
Scenario: Mirosław & Andrzej Żuławski
Photography: Witold Sobocinski
Music: Andrzej Korzyński
Scenography: Teresa Barska & Jerzy Snieżawski
Decoration: Stanisław Ledóchowski
Costiumes : Lidia Rzeszewska
Direction of the production: Artistic Barbara Pec-Ślesicka
Followed: Andrzej Wajda
Production: Zespół filmowy Wektor
Artistic director: Jerzy Jesionowski
Direction literary: Ernest Bryll
Kind: drama
Language of turning: Polish
Lasted: 101 minutes
Format: Colors (Eastmancolor)

Distribution

Małgorzata Braunek : Helena - Marta
Leszek Teleszyński: Michał
Anna Milewska: sister Klara
Michał Grudziński: Marian
Marek Walczewski : Rozenkranc
Hanna Stankówna : lifting
Alicja Jachiewicz: waitress

Around film

The film is carried out with Cracow in natural decorations, although certain elements can suggest Lvov (however nothing is explicit).

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