Open AccessClergy (Kler) by Wojciech Smarzowski – The Image of Catholic Priests in Polish Movies After 1989
Author(s) -
Piotr Zwierzchowski
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
zeszyty naukowe uniwersytetu jagiellońskiego. studia religiologica/studia religiologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2084-4077
pISSN - 0137-2432
DOI - 10.4467/20844077sr.21.006.13930
Subject(s) - portrait , relation (database) , context (archaeology) , institution , movie theater , order (exchange) , sociology , art , religious studies , history , art history , philosophy , social science , archaeology , computer science , finance , database , economics
Clergy (Kler, 2018) by Wojciech Smarzowski has aroused great controversy and many discussions about the position and role of the Catholic Church in contemporary Poland. I would like to look at the portraits of priests in the film in relation to the images previously created in Polish cinema. I am not going to analyze particular examples, but point to selected motifs and characters in order to interpret the images of clergymen and the church in their context. I will consider both the construction of individual characters and the image of the Catholic Church as an institution.