Behemoth in Lodz: Kill It and Leave This Town

Tina Poglajen KINO! 43/44

Mariusz Wilczyński’s Kill It and Leave This Town (Zabij to i wyjedź z tego miasta, 2020) is a largely autobiographical work set in Lodz in the seventies. Its inhabitants are presented in a surreal way, embodying the collective trauma after decades of Nazi and Communist regimes. The key motif in the film is loss.

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