Kubrick show comes to Krakow

Photo: National Museum/Karol Kowalik

The travelling exhibition, which was created by the Deutsches Filmmuseum in cooperation with the Stanley Kubrick estate, was scheduled to coincide with the 7th Off Plus Camera Film Festival in Krakow.

Film aficionados can savour over 1000 items connected with the director's career, including props, storyboards, costumes, posters, as well as letters written to and by the director.

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Besides insights such acclaimed movies as A Clockwork Orange, 2001 Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket and The Shining, the show also sheds light on several of Kubrick's unrealised works.

The director's famously meticulous research methods are in evidence in material connected with unmade projects such as his biopic of Napoleon, and Aryan Papers, a planned film about the Holocaust.

Photographs made by location scouts in Poland reveal that Kubrick was considering shooting in places such as the Renaissance town of Zamosc. However, he abandoned the project shortly after Spielberg released Schindler's List (1993).

The film-maker's widow Christiane Kubrick and long-standing producer Jan Harlan both attended the opening on Sunday.

The exhibition will run until 9 September. (nh)