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UBU KRÓL / UBU KING

UBU KRÓL / UBU KING

UBU KRÓL / UBU KING
Poland 2003
Director: Piotr Szulkin, 95 MIN

Based on themes of Alfred Jarry’s drama „Ubu Roi“, which premiered 1869 in Paris, Piotr Szulkin created a surreal take on Poland, full of allusions to historical and modern phenomena: By manipulating the masses and promising them prosperity, freedom and democracy, upstart “King Ubu” manages to take power. His vulgar and brutal reign ruins the country. Ubu surrounds himself with flatterers and – egged on by foreign ambassadors – starts a war against czarist Russia. After his defeat, his people oust him and his wife. Confident that he will always fall on his feet, Ubu goes into exile…

Bambi: 09.04. / 8 p.m.

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