The Structure of Crystal

Film - 1969

8,0

25.1K

The Structure of Crystal it's a movie with Jan Myslowicz, Barbara Wrzesińska, Andrzej Zarnecki, Wladyslaw Jarema, Adam Debski Full cast. Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. Original title Struktura krysztalu Genre Drama.

reviews plot trailer physical support

Where to watch in streaming

Subscription

Streaming rent

Buy

reviews

The structure of the crystal of

Federico Tyst Querin

I believe that great films are those that ask questions without providing answers, those that direct the spectator's gaze towards problems in their own lives without offering solutions. This is what Zanussi does in his first feature film, a film whose question is: «how do you choose to live your life?». It feels like reading Kierkegaard, watching this film. The existential anguish of the either/or, aggravated by the absence of that escape route which is God. The two protagonists, both physicists, contain two opposing life choices, the two paths of the either/or: one retired for life private and married, the other dedicated to academic life. One excludes the other. But, at the same time, one needs the other: only in this way does the alternative to our choice appear before us. In this way, the synthesis between one aut and the other: boredom, silence, sweet doing nothing. Read all

plot

Two talented physicists used to work together in the frontline of academy in scientific discovery. One of them, Jan, gave everything up and went to a small, snowy village, to become a metereologist. The other one, Marek, who had a famous scientific career, doesn't understand why Jan is wasting his potential living a simple life, and tries to get him back to the big city. Clash of two attitudes, characters, ideas about the meaning of existence.