Adam Nadolny, City and architecture in films of the 1960s and at the beginning of the 1970s in Poland
Figure 1. A view to the yacht harbour at a lake in the southern Poland, representing the background of 'Knife in the Water' of 1961. This breakthrough film image, as for Polish film making industry, took the audience to different, non-urban space. It showed that minimalism in architecture could be reached by means of limited and practically ascetic means of architectural expression. It was the harbinger of new style in the Polish film of the 1960s. [directed by Roman Polański, produced by the film studio "Kadr", author of the photographs Andrzej Kostenko]. The photograph published under the permission of the National Film Archives in Warsaw, photo no 1-F-387-23.
City and architecture in the Polish films of the 1960s Architecture and modern city became in the 1960s a motif widely applied in the Polish films. Flat and unornamented building façades, wide perspectives of modern housing estates were the determinants of modern times, as being in contrast to the previously 10