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Dominican Rep. Refrain (S)
- Original title
- Refren
- Year
- 1972
- Running time
- 11 min.
- Country
Poland- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary
- Cinematography
- Witold Stok (B&W)
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Short Film
- Synopsis
- The ten-minute-long Refrain deals with a funeral home and targets bureaucracy, corruption and dispassionate attitudes toward sorrowful fellow citizens. The film also reveals some macabre, almost Kafkaesque humour familiar to those who lived under the communist system, for example in the scenes when clients apply for graveyard lots. Refrain opens with an image of erasing the name of a recently deceased person. The last scene not only displays Kieslowski’s black sense of humour, but also provides a universalising metaphor: to the sound of Vivaldi’s music, the camera portrays a number of newborn babies in a hospital, each being assigned its identification number.
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