Underplayed Gems

House On the Wastelands (1950)

House On the Wastelands poster
Original title
Dom na pustkowiu
Directed by
Jan Rybkowski
Genre
drama film
Country
Poland
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man lives alone in a remote house after World War II. The film shows the aftermath of the war and the struggle to rebuild a life in isolation.

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What happens

La Maison solitaire (Dom na pustkowiu en polonais, parfois traduit comme « Une maison dans le désert » ou « Une maison au milieu de nulle part ») est le premier des films du réalisateur polonais Jan Rybkowski, tourné en noir et blanc dès 1947 puis plusieurs fois modifié après sa sortie pour le Festival du film de Venise en 1949 pour répondre aux exigences historiographiques du parti communiste polonais et de l'URSS concernant l'Insurrection de Varsovie de 1944, et qui ne sera distribué qu'au début des années 1950 dans plusieurs pays. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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