Saturday | May 30, 2015 7:00 pm

The Fabulous Journey of Balthazar Kober
(Niezwykla podroz Balthazara Kobera)

Screening on Film

Directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has.
With Rafal Wieczynski, Michael Lonsdale, Adrianna Biedrzynska.
Poland/France, 1988, 35mm, color, 115 min.
Polish with English subtitles.

Ribald, picaresque and dazzlingly fantastical, Balthazar Kober closed Has' remarkable oeuvre with a final affirmation of his outstanding talents for oneiric narrative and overripe imagery. A spirited and expansive adaptation of Frederick Tristan's adventure novel about a strange young alchemist and his master—wonderfully played by Michel Lonsdale—fleeing from the Inquisition across the strange landscapes of sixteenth-century Germany, Balthazar Kober counts among Has' most visually exuberant and extravagant films.