The Film the Nazis Tried to Destroy
‘Europa’, a 1931 film by Polish radicals Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, was long believed destroyed by the Nazis – but its rediscovery offers an eerie glimpse into a world spinning towards war and destruction.
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Marta Zboralska is finishing her PhD in the Department of History of Art, University College London, where she specialises in twentieth-century Polish art.
‘Europa’, a 1931 film by Polish radicals Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, was long believed destroyed by the Nazis – but its rediscovery offers an eerie glimpse into a world spinning towards war and destruction.
Warsaw’s National Museum recently removed a series of canonical works by women artists. It’s the latest episode in the Polish state’s war on ‘gender ideology.’