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(1969/Poland, 105 min., color, drama, in Polish with English subtitles) Dir.: Andrzej Wajda. Cast: Beata Tyskiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Andrzej Lapicki, Daniel Olbrychski, Witold Holtz. Inspired by the tragic death of the great Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski, Wajda's film focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of a director and his actors when they are disrupted by the mysterious murder of their leading man. Film fiction mixes with reality as some of the actors play themselves.

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