The Third Part of the Night

The Third Part of the Night

1972 · 102 min · PL · 6.9 (63 votes)
Dir. Andrzej Żuławski · Starring Leszek Teleszyński, Małgorzata Braunek, Jan Nowicki, Jerzy Goliński, Anna Milewska, Michał Grudziński · Music Andrzej Korzyński
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Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a Nazi vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were “employed” as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.

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A deeply unsettling and disorienting descent into a wartime nightmare. The film feels like a fever dream, blurring reality and hallucination with a pervasive sense of dread and existential unease. It’s a challenging, unforgettable experience.

dread-soakedsurrealnightmarishoppressivedisorientingslow-burnarthouse horrorsurrealistwartime dramaexpressionisticsurvivaltraumaexistential dreadloss of identity
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