Women in Polish film The female face of moral concern Krystyna Janda interviewed Janda was a pioneering actor in her depiction of women as active and assertive agents of moral enquiry. Andrew James Horton speaks to her. Heroines, sex bombs, ordinary women The depiction of women in film by Polish female directors Women in Polish film are frequently reduced to a few stereotypes. Ma³gorzata Radkiewicz looks at how female directors portray female characters. In the absence of love The films of Dorota Kêdzierzawska Using individual female protagonists and employing a distinctive visual and narrative style, Kêdzierzawska highlights broader social tragedies, as Monika Braid explains. From the archives Faith kept behind bars Teresa Kotlarczyk's Prymas—trzy lata z tysi¹ca (Primate, 2000) A fatalistic feminism Dorota Kêdzierzawska's Nic (Nothing, 1998) Rattling the skeleton in Europe's closet Agnieszka Holland's Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest, 1985)

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HORROR The thousand ties to Dr Ood Victor Trivas's Der Nackte und der Satan (The Head, 1959) Art direction and pulp fiction merge in this story of a head grafted onto another's body. David Del Valle traces the history of brain transplants and living detatched heads.

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