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Article: SEAFARING EPIC A TREASURE OF A FIND FOR FESTIVAL.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- October 3, 1996
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It's not often that a local festival can come up with an authentic film find, but the Fifth Polish Film Festival's American premiere showing of Andrzej Wajda's ``The Shadow Line'' definitely qualifies as a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
This 1976 adaptation of Joseph Conrad's autobiographical novel is the only English-language film ever made by Poland's greatest filmmaker (``Ashes and Diamonds,'' ``Man of Marble''). And - for some unknown reason - its very existence has gone unnoticed by American film scholarship. (None of the standard American film references mention it in his filmography.)
To make the coup even sweeter, the film's appearance here comes ...