Decades passed after its fall before art critics knew how to speak about socialist realist cinema – finding within it unique themes, intuitive choices and artful tropes. The genre came late to Poland.

Born on April 12, 1946 in Ningbo, China, he studied at the Shanghai College of Art, where he learned to paint in the Socialist Realist style popularized in the Soviet Union. Shortly after he graduated ...

Nonsense, replied Director Bohumil Hrdlicka. He had simply been trying to infuse a little life and “socialist realism” into Mozart. For two more nights Hrdlicka and Conductor Jaroslav ...