Black Cross

The first Polish historical blockbuster and still the most-viewed Polish film of all time, Black Cross is a widescreen medieval epic overflowing with sumptuous pageantry, thunderous action, and glorious Eastmancolor. With faithful historical detail, the film depicts the heroic Polish campaign against the Order of the Teutonic Knights, which offers vicarious redemptive allegories for the horrors and humiliations that the Poles suffered from the Nazis during a much more recent war. (165 mins., DCP)

Organized by Propaganda Foundation, DI Factory, and Cyfrowe Repozytorium Filmowe, Warsaw, and The Film Foundation, New York and Los Angeles; in cooperation with Milestone Film and Video, New Jersey, and Studio Filmowe Tor, Zebra Studio Filmowe, and Studio Filmowe KADR, Warsaw; and with the support of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, Polish Film Institute, and National Audiovisual Institute, Warsaw.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Cultures and its Polish Studies Initiative, the Polish American Club, and the Ohio State Polish Club.