ESCAPE FROM THE LIBERTY CINEMA

Deserted by his family and distrusted by his co-workers, a government censor goes about his thankless work. He took his job not for power or prestige or politics, but because it was a job. In a movie theatre across the street from his office, the actors in a B movie get fed up with their pointless dialogue, and go on strike. The censor is forced to close the theatre until his superiors can be summoned. When a critic notes a similarity between their current dilemma and Woody Allen's “Purple Rose of Cairo,” a reel from that film is screened, and after some confusion, Woody Allen's main character finds himself trapped in a bad Polish movie. Many of Marezewski's features have been censored in Poland, this one included. His observations here are incisive.