Poland 68 | IMGpapers 1968

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friend described for me how Warsaw had taken to James Bond. You may see in that city nearly ery kind of film, and, though the range has recently dim nished, there were, in the spring and rly summer, films by Losey and the Beatles, Westerns, sexy stuff, with Dr Kildare and Bonanza pearing on the tele. The audiences are not deprived, theretore, of all contact with the West. it they may not see James Bond: this has been officially laid down/ At one point, however, the n industry was anxious that the leading cinematic lights, together with the representatives of icial culture, should be exposed to this archetypal product of the. West. A special showing of • Bond films was arranged. e tickets, distributed in advance, were soon reaching the highest prices on the black market, for the circumstances it was readily believed that the films were something special. My friend had drawing, in sections of workers t secured himself a ticket, but was impelled to see the show. Could he sneak in at the door, p through the crush of cinematic VIPs? Not a chance: the ushers, vigilant and burly men... amined every ticket. My friend approached an usher. Would he let him in? No, it could not. done. Some persuasive words, a similar response. Would some zlotys clear the way? 25 were a iced on offer and refused; would 50 see a change of mind? Well, a hundred then, now a quite tantial sum. No. the man could not be moved. friend waited and watched the aurience move in, his appetite to see the film continually growing le last invited guests were in. the doors swung to. and through the alose window the hohre gan rapidly to dim. My friend rushed forward. pushed the burly men aside, and, once in the ema, bounded through the dark on hands ard knees. reported his disgust to me. The violence and synthetic sex, the fo. mless, mindless nature of the 1s et lcd in to kanad at per us expected miety an o see the because of theid hepression his was a degrading conjugation of events. hi-licit fashion. tolish cultural life, indeed. is a victim of the revolution from above. Socialism came to Poland - through the actions of the working class, through the factories and the streets: it came ported from the east, installed by Russian troops in 1944. This sanction continued to preserve and while it has now taken on an existence of its own, that existence is bounded by the limitations its birth. It is not without its virtues, but its future progress is unclear. condition of the film industry provides an interesting example. The government decided that Police strike Bob Rowthorn