A tourist group is shown the latest in Soviet virtual reality technology through the Potemkin.
Direction
Rybczyński's layered compositing was groundbreaking for 1987.
Cinematography
Absurd density—dozens of simultaneous actions in single shots.
Production
Made the same year he won the Oscar for Tango.
Director
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rybczyński made this between winning his Oscar for Tango and fleeing to America after communist authorities blacklisted him.
The 'Potemkin' references Eisenstein's 1925 film—Rybczyński literally traps tourists inside revolutionary cinema history.
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