An underground classic and one of the greatest Polish films of the 1970s, The Third Part of the Night is the debut of Andrzej Żuławski, one of the true mavericks of European cinema. Set during the Nazi occupation of Lwow, it is no ordinary war film, combining nightmarish surrealist imagery with multilayered symbolism including bizarre factual scenarios, such as the resistance movement initiated in the University by volunteer ‘lice feeders’ taking part in a medical experiment to test cholera vaccines.
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