Thursday, Jan. 23, 1986
Arts/Entertainment
University Daily Kansan
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Portrayal of Soviets misleading,prof says
By Grant W. Butler Staff writer
The Soviets may be depicted by Sylvester Stallone as evil, bloodthirsty demons, but they are really no different from average Americans, a Polish film director visiting the University of Kansas said Tuesday.
"It's very dangerous to make a film that criticizes and lies because it's so attractive that people will believe it," said Janusz Majewski, the director.
Majewski, who is from Warsaw, Poland, holds the Rose Morgan Visiting Professorship this semester in the department of theatre and media arts.
he said.
The process of peace between the United States and the Soviet Union could be hurt by movies such as "Rambo" and "Red Dawn," he said, because they were too concerned with making money and they had a tendency to lie and bend facts to sell tickets.
"A film like 'Rambo' hurts the craft because the attraction for many people is so strong that it doesn't matter whether it's all true or not."
In the Cold War period of the 1960s, there was a similar trend in Soviet films, he said, in which the United States was presented as a land of crime, poverty and social problems.
All the characters in those movies were depicted as either good or evil, he said. The Soviet character always was good, and the U.S. character always was bad.
because they were all based on non- true facts."
He said many current U.S. movies relied on the same techniques as those Soviet films of the 1950s.
Majewski is teaching two courses in film this semester at the University, THIMA 683, "Film Production," and THIMA 586, "The Theatre and Film of Czechoslovakia and Poland: 1945 to the Present." He will return to Poland in June, where he teaches directing at the Higher State Film School in Lodz.
Majewski entered the film school as an architectural engineer to design sets. He eventually became interested in films, switched studies and earned his degree in directing in 1961.
"My colleagues and I treated these films as a sort of stupidity," he said. "In a way, it was almost comedy
Nearly 26 years later, Majewski
has made more than 30 films including 10 feature-length films and a 12-part historical series for television about the 16th century life of Queen Bona of Poland.
He said that he had received more than 25 awards from international film festivals and that, in general, his works had been accepted by critics.
In 1977, Mawjski presented his film "Hotel Pacific" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Afterward, he traveled throughout the United States with his family. The tour included a three-day stay in Lawrence, during which time he showed his film, lectured to students and received a proposal to teach at the University.
Majewski's most recent film is a Polish-Hungarian co-production,
"Deserters." It is a comedy about soldiers who deserted in World War I. The film has just been completed and is scheduled to premiere in September in Budapest and Warsaw.
Janusz Majewski
He said that even though there were successful directors in Europe, such as Ingmar Bergman and Fedrico Fellini, his inspiration came from the United States, the birthplace of the feature film.
"In my childhood the first film I saw was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' in the '30s," he said. "I was so impressed that I decided I wanted to be a film creator. I made some home movies and tried to create some cartoons, and I discovered how much I enjoyed making other people enjoy."
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