POLAND More than education Jerzy Stuhr interviewed Stuhr is best known as a Polish film actor and director. Here, though, he speaks to Andrew James Horton about his role of teacher at the Katowice film school and why learning the art of directing is more than learning about film. From the archives Kieœlowski revived Jerzy Stuhr's Du¿e zwierzê (The Big Animal, 2000) What a piece of work is a man! Jerzy Stuhr's Tydzieñ z ¿ycie mê¿czyzny (A Week in the Life of a Man, 1999) "I made a film about weakness" Jerzy Stuhr's press conference for Tydzieñ... Better to have loved and lost Jerzy Stuhr's Historie mi³osne (Love Stories, 1997)

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Victims and murderers Kinoeye presents two articles that examine films that look at societal anxieties through the killings by young people and of young people. YOUTH ON FILM Teenage murderesses and monster babies The portrayal of young people in recent central European film Youthful innocence as a victim of social forces is often used in film to critique changes in society. Felicitas Becker looks at how the young are depicted in Czeœæ Tereska, Lovely Rita and other recent works. YOUTH ON FILM Child victims and excessive signifiers Lars von Trier's Forbrydelsens Element (The Element of Crime, 1984) Von Trier uses child murders as a means of showing a fundamental aspect of Scandinavian horror—the fear that paganism lurks beneath the surface of modern respectability, as Rebecca A and Samuel J Umland explain.

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