Polish Cinema for Beginners: Polish Church

The topic of Polish religiousness has often appeared on Polish screens recently and in very different ways. A lot of religious films are made and they are doing well – ‘Broken Ear of Corn’, produced by the media empire owned by fundamentalist father Rydzyk, is an attempt to transplant Christian Films, popular in the USA, into Polish ground. The Oscar-nominated "Corpus Christi" became a great success last year. The film by Jan Komasa, tells the story of aboy from a reformatory who impersonates a priest and... strangely he heals relations in a village in eastern Poland. The film was appreciated by both progressive and conservative environments. However, Wojciech Smarzowski's "Clergy" serves as our starting point for the discussion.