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No End (1985)

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Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 9  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.4/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Synopsis: The political wounds inflicted on the Polish people during the post-Solidarity era are dramatized in this tragic film from world-renowned director Krzysztof Kieslowski. A dedicated attorney is busy building a defense for a fiery labor activist and strike organizer when he suddenly dies... The political wounds inflicted on the Polish people during the post-Solidarity era are dramatized in this tragic film from world-renowned director Krzysztof Kieslowski. A dedicated attorney is busy building a defense for a fiery labor activist and strike organizer when he suddenly dies in an automobile accident. His widow, realizing too late how much she truly loved her husband, believes the only way for her to feel whole again is to further his cause. She hires an aging, compromising lawyer to take on this one last case. Ultimately, she realizes that no matter what social ramifications this trial has, her grief for her husband will never fade. Kieslowski's film is as much a political commentary as it is a metaphysical drama, one in which a deceased man continues to affect the world through his widow's absolute love. Made with Kieslowski's traditional somberness, NO END is a haunting, ultimately moving work that hints at themes the director would develop in his masterworks THE DECALOGUE and THREE COLORS TRILOGY. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Grazyna Szapolowska, Aleksander Bardini, Jerzy Radziwlowicz

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Screenwriter: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Composer: Zbigniew Preisner

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May 8, 2005

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DVD Features:

  • Region [unknown]
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Additional Release Material:

  • Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer
  • Production Interview - 1. Grazyna Szapolowska - Actress
  • 2. Jacek Petrycki - Cinematographer
  • Documentary - 1. THE OFFICE - Polish with English Subtitles

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[Deserves] to be counted among his acknowledged classics

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Emanuel Levy
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Kieslowski's most overtly political film, also one of his most potent; it boasts a finale that will surely set viewer’s tongues wagging, whether in agreement or disconcertion

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Dan Jardine
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A dated although nonetheless remarkable work of propaganda.

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09/14/04
Rumsey Taylor
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I suspect that the story of how No End came to be made, and of how it speaks to Polish audiences, would be of as much interest to American audiences as the film itself.

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08/30/04
Vincent Canby
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A brilliant opening scene, but the political message is weak.

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08/23/04
Mark Robison
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04/19/04
Rumsey Taylor
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The film was powerful enough in its political jibes to have made the state and the church and the opposition party condemn it.

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01/01/00
Dennis Schwartz
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No End functions both as a compliment and a precursor to the director's most lasting works.

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James Berardinelli
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This 1984 feature by the remarkable Krzysztof Kieslowski has been described as his most explicitly political.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum
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