The Scar

The Scar
by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Actor: Agnieszka Holland, Franciszek Pieczka, Jerzy Stuhr, Mariusz Dmochowski, Stanislaw Igar
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cinematographer: Slawomir Idziak
Composer: Stanislaw Radwan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Polish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video

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Movie Review: Lost Kieslowski
Summary: 4 Stars

"The Scar" (1976) was Krzysztof Kieslowski's first feature, made as he decided to abandon documentaries for less risky fiction. Veteran Polish actor Franciszek Pieczka plays "an honest man in the system" charged by the party with building a fertilizer plant in a rural town. Kieslowski reportedly considered "The Scar" a failure -- despite Pieczka's fine work, the elegant script and the telling cinematography of Slawomir Idziak ("Black Hawk Down"). Kieslowski's art "was not yet metaphysical," longtime soundman Michal Zarnecki says in one of the extras interviews. The color images (full frame, enhanced for widescreen TVs) and sound are adequate. Subtitles are clear. This is one of four recent additions to Kino's Kieslowski collection -- along with "No End," "Camera Buff" and "Blind Chance" -- all of which show that the Polish master's writing and directing skills arrived almost fully formed when he turned to feature films. Each of the films benefits from a powerful central performance. They are products of the 1970s and '80s, a time of vast sociopolitical changes in Poland, but are not timepieces or simplistic attacks on the communists. Highly recommended despite the director's reservations.

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