Name: Pejzaz horyzontalny
Genre: Drama
Released: 1978-10-06
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Mieczyslaw Hryniewicz, Jaroslaw Kopaczewski, Wieslaw Wójcik

A bit slow but a solid film about three friends working on a large construction site in Poland at the end of the 1970s

"Pejzaz horyzontalny" (The Horizontal Landscape) is a documentary-style social drama about the transformations of people arriving from different parts of the country to work on a large construction site. The plot is about three new workers-Student (Mieczyslaw Hryniewicz), Tytus (Jaroslaw Kopaczewski), and Kedziorek (Wieslaw Wojcik)-who start working at the same time and live together in private quarters. The director is Janusz Kidawa, who specialized in showing everyday life in his native Silesia. "The Horizontal Landscape" is not a film for everyone, only for people who remember Poland in the late 1970s and would like to recall what everyday life looked like at that time. I myself started studying construction engineering at the University of Technology in 1978, although I later retrained to work in IT. However, the beginning of my professional career looked a bit similar, and that is why I watched this film with pleasure. The film's action is slow, which is typical for 1970s cinema, but it is compensated by great acting and a fair portrayal of reality. So I think there might be a group of people who would enjoy watching this film.

The drama genre is a broad category that features stories portraying human experiences, emotions, conflicts, and relationships in a realistic and emotionally impactful way. Dramas delve into the complexities of human life, often exploring themes of love, loss, morality, societal issues, personal growth, with the aim to evoke an emotional response from the audience by presenting relatable and thought-provoking stories.

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