Toy Soldiers
Żołnierzyki
| year | 1962 |
| author | Julian Jaskólski, Ryszard Wawrynowicz |
| format | 14'10, B&W |
| sound | sound |
| genre | feature |
| club | AKF X Muza, Gdańsk |
| tags | pain, ideology, critique, tender, memory, passion, portrait, protest, violence, despair |
Two wounded soldiers engage in mortal combat in the middle of the desert. Following attempts to shoot each other and a brutal fight, they both fall to the ground exhausted. This allows them to see each other as fellow human beings. They help each other get to the road, but an approaching aircraft shoots them dead. The senselessness of war is highlighted through long shots, in which the protagonists’ figures disappear amid the desert landscape.
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