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.

Elements of pre-war art deco and early modernism can be found in the form ... Leszek Wróblewski / Forum Socialist realist building was supposed to be ’national in form’. That is, it was to reference ...

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 ...