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The War of the Worlds: Next Century (Polish: Wojna światów – następne stulecie) is a 1981 Polish film by Piotr Szulkin which is inspired by the classic 1898 novel of H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds. It was immediately banned by the Polish government upon its release because it depicted political parallels with the political context of ...
Feb 20, 1983 · The War of the Worlds: Next Century: Directed by Piotr Szulkin. With Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr. Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed.
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Dec 31, 2014 · The War of the Worlds: Next Century is a 1981 Polish film by Piotr Szulkin which is inspired by the classic 1897 novel of H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds.
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Summaries. Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders.
Piotr Szulkin’s ‘War of the Worlds: Next Century’ uses the genre of science fiction as a pretext for a deeply philosophical and existential kind of cinema which, far from trying to predict accurately a distant future, rather opts for discussing a tangible, nightmarish human present.
Released just as Poland was being plunged into martial law and immediately banned, The War of the Worlds: Next Century is a disturbingly prescient allegory of power, control, and media manipulation in a post-truth world.
There is no great war to fend off the Martian colonists in Piotr Szulkin’s reconfiguration of H.G. Wells’s immortal invasion saga, The War of the Worlds. Instead, state authorities immediately collaborate with their new “friends” toward mutually beneficial population control.
