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The Passion According to the Polish Community of Pruchnik

The Passion According to the Polish Community of Pruchnik (2009)

January. 01,2009
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In the small town of Pruchnik in the southeastern part of Poland villagers gather every year on Good Friday to "punish" Judas for his betrayal of Jesus. A larger-than-life straw puppet with a hooked nose is dragged through town, beaten, decapitated, burnt and thrown in the river. The film explores the thin line between pagan and Christian rites while exposing the sometimes brutal and blatantly anti-semitic undercurrents of Christian practice.

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UnowPriceless
2009/01/01

hyped garbage

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Neive Bellamy
2009/01/02

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Ricardo Daly
2009/01/03

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

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Freeman
2009/01/04

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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