The Codes
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Director Wojciech Jerzy Has Screenplay Andrzej Kijowski Language Polish | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1966 (1966) Writer Andrzej Kijowski (screenplay), Andrzej Kijowski (story) Initial release December 25, 1966 (Poland) Music director Krzysztof Penderecki, Stanislaw Radwan Cast Zbigniew Cybulski (Maciek), Barbara Krafftowna (Jadwiga), Janusz Gajos (White monk), Jan Kreczmar (Tadeusz), Ignacy Gogolewski (Doctor Gross)Similar movies Related Wojciech Jerzy Has movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Codes is the English title for Szyfry, a Polish film released in 1966, directed by Wojciech Has.
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Story
Tadeusz (Jan Kreczmar) is a Polish veteran of World War II who fled to London at the end of the war, leaving behind his wife Zofia (Irena Eichlerówna) and son, Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), who disappeared when he was 12 years old.
Tadeusz returns to Kraków to discover that Maciek is alive, his wife may have been a partisan, and that his son may have turned his own mother in to the authorities.
During Maciek's struggle to understand his parents' history, questions arise concerning collaboration with the Gestapo and retribution by the Home Army. Has pictures the mystical lost boy in a dark fairy-tale forest, full of the war's ghosts and wholesale executions. The hypnotic quality of these excursions foreshadows the mesmerizing passages of Has' later film, The Hour-Glass Sanatorium.
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