Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
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What critics compared Mother Joan of the Angels to
Set in the Poland of 1962 and composed of austerely gorgeous black and white images, Pawel Pawlikowski ’s "Ida" could fit right into the "Masterpieces" series, evoking as it does films ranging from Andrzej Wajda ’s "Innocent Sorcerers" to Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s "Mother Joan of the Angels" (both 1960).
There are echoes of Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds (1958) and Janusz Morgenstern’s Goodbye, Until Tomorrow (1961), both of which starred Cybulski, as well as Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), and although none of these luminously monochromatic movies used the boxy 4:3 aspect ratio that Pawlikowski employs; neither would they have discussed the fate suffered by Jews during the German occupation so vividly or evoked the shabbiness of the Communist regime as straightforwardly.