Polish History As Phantasmagoria: Wojciech Has at BAM

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The Waking Dreams of Wojciech HasOctober 15-27 at BAM
The Polish filmmaker Wojciech Jerzy Has, subject of a comprehensive Brooklyn Academy of Music retrospective, is best known for intricate phantasmagoria. Among these, The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) is a babushka-doll of a film. Based on the novel by the 18th century Polish count Jan Potocki, the story details the escapades of one Captain Alphonse van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski). A story-within-a-story, spinning paralle