Science-fiction Plots as an Allegory of Totalitarian Society and State in Cinematography of the Late Communist Poland

(University of Zielona Góra, Poland)

Abstract: The 1970’s and 1980’s are known in the Polish cinematography not only as the period of famous productions of the “cinema of moral concern” and brilliant comedies written and directed by Stanisław Bareja. During that period many films of specific Polish science-fiction style, whose action took place in a near future, were created. They formed an opportunity to create allegories of the totalitarian state, which served as a method of hidden criticism of the communist society ruled in the authoritarian way. Not all of them had equally strong political meaning, but they were always used by their directors as an opportunity to show the forbidden aspect of reality.

Key words: science-fiction, Polish Cinematography, Communist Poland