The Klassiki Kino Club: Andrzej Munk’s Eroica

Critic, researcher, and friend of the show Alisa Goruleva is back on the pod this week for the second edition of the Klassiki Kino Club, our watch-a-long exploration of Klassiki’s ever-expanding catalogue. Host Sam Goff asked Alisa to pick another film from our library that she hadn’t seen before to discuss. This time around, she plumped for a real Polish classic: Andrzej Munk’s 1958 war satire Eroica, a cynical deconstruction of the myths of military heroism. 

Alisa and sam discuss Munk’s tragically short career, his place among the titans of post-war Polish film, and Eroica’s blend of black humour, despair, and disillusioned humanism.

Watch along with us on Klassiki now! Make sure to check out Alisa’s writing over on the Klassiki Journal, and leave us a review to let us know which films you’d like us to tackle next in the Kino Club.

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Intro music by Juliet Merchant.