Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.
Marian
Józef
Ania
Ala
Ludwik
Lucjan
Florist Maria
Jakubiec
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Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.
Marian
Józef
Ania
Ala
Ludwik
Lucjan
Florist Maria
Jakubiec
Movie / 1984
Movie / 1981
Movie / 2017
Movie / 2021
Movie / 2014
Movie / 1997
Movie / 2024
Movie / 2022
Movie / 2024
Movie / 2021
Movie / 2022
Movie / 2023
Movie / 1999
Movie / 2019
Movie / 1994
Movie / 2024
Movie / 2006
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2018
Movie / 2022