A Year of the Quiet Sun

A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)

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Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...

Date of release
1984-09-09
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (33)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Krzysztof Zanussi

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Golden Lion

A Year of the Quiet Sun is a 1984 Polish film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi and starring Maja Komorowska and Scott Wilson. It tells the story of a romance between a Polish woman and an American soldier in Poland, shortly after WWII.

Production

The film was produced at the Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych (WFF) studios in Łódź, Poland, during a period of international co-productions in the early 1980s, alongside other notable works like Krzysztof Kieślowski's Blind Chance (1981). This era marked a "golden age" for Łódź as a film hub post-WWII, though the studios faced financial collapse by the early 1990s amid Poland's transition to a market economy.

The film's dreamlike ending was shot in Monument Valley, Arizona, referencing John Ford's Stagecoach (1939), the only American film Emilia and her mother recall fondly. This location ties into characters' impressions of America from movies.

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