On the Silver Globe (film)

On the Silver Globe Polish Na srebrnym globie is a Polish film premiered in 1988, directed by Andrzej uawski and adapted from a novel by Jerzy uawski.

Jerzy uawski wrote the novel on which the film is based, On the Silver Globe, around 1900 as part of The Lunar Trilogy. uawski was the granduncle of Andrzej uawski. Andrzej uawski left his native Poland for France in 1972 to avoid Polish government censorship. After uawskis critical success with the 1975 film Limportant cest daimer, the Polish authorities in charge of cultural affairs reevaluated their assessment of him. They invited him to return to Poland and produce a project of his own choice. uawski, who had always wanted to make a film of his grand uncles novel, saw the offer as a unique opportunity to achieve this aim.Between 1975 and 1977, uawski adapted the novel into a screenplay. He shot the film at various locations, including the Baltic seashore at Lisi Jar near Rozewie, Lower Silesia, the Wieliczka Salt Mine, the Tatra Mountains, the Caucasus mountains in Georgia, the Crimea in the Ukraine, and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. In the fall of 1977, the project came to a sudden halt when Janusz Wilhelmi was appointed viceminister of cultural affairs. He interpreted the films battle between the Selenites and the Szerns as a thinlyveiled allegory of the Polish peoples struggle with totalitarianism. Wilhelmi shut down the film project, which was eighty percent complete, and ordered all materials destroyed. ........

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