Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Official release date: January
Second Run DVD
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Second Run DVD is releasing Wojciech Marczewski's Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema as a stand-alone release in January.
Wojciech Marczewski’s anti-totalitarian satire is a darkly comic examination of censorship. Adapting the premise of Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo to late 1980s Poland, the film centres on a provincial film censor who is horrified to discover that the actors in a trite romantic weepie are refusing to perform their roles. With shades also of Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. and Bulgakov’sThe Master and Margarita, the film deftly combines social observation and surreal humour.
Directed by one of Poland’s leading intellectual - and much censored - filmmakers, this multi-award winning feature is a key film of the seismic political changes of 1989, and an enthusiastic manifesto for the freedom of the artist - and ultimately, of all humanity.
"Extremely funny political comedy... Consciously influenced by Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, it's an absurdist satire on bureaucracy and moral cowardice" Philip French, The Observer
DVD special features:
• All-new HD digital transfer with restored picture and sound, approved by the director.
• Newly filmed, exclusive interview with director Wojciech Marczewski.
• New and improved English subtitle translation.
• 20-page booklet featuring a new essay on the film by film historian Michael Brooke.