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2 Questions about the film

posted 15 years ago by Stoshie
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1) What is the significance of the title "Pornografia"? I can't think of any other film that has this misleading of a title! There is nothing remotely related to pornography in the film! Is there some alternate meaning to the word "pornografia" in Polish that would explain it?

Even the DVD cover is misleading - it shows a picture of an older man with his hands around the stomach of a young girl who is leaning against him. While that is in the film, it suggests something that just isn't a focus of the film.

2) The DVD box, and other sources, show the film as being 152 minutes long. But I've seen 2 DVDs, and they are both 112 minutes long (which also differs from the IMDB listing of it as being 117 minutes long). Even if you include the length of the extras on the DVD to the film, they only add up to just over 132 minutes. So why does the box say it is 152 minutes long?

[–] Dengar 15 years ago

I just watched the film and loved it. I admit there is a seeming discrepancy with the title. I'm sure the reason is buried in there somewhere, and I'm sure I'll get to it through repeated viewings.

I too noticed the box is inaccurate about the length, but this is fairly common. At least 1 in every 250 or so titles I rent have a typo in the length section. The worst was with "Deep Red", which said it was 140 min., and was only 100!

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[–] on3gin 9 years ago

If there is any porn in this dreary film it is invisible, because the whole thing is filmed indoors at night in wartime Poland in a country farmhouse with no electricity. I wasn't expecting a skin flick by any means, but I do like to be able to see what I'm watching.

[–] kaream 9 years ago

1) The title has nothing to do with sexual pornography. It's a comment on the "pornography" of war - what war does to people, and how they can or cannot cope with it.

The cover picture is misleading for the same reason that many DVD covers are similarly misleading, to attract interest in buying it.

2) The timing on the box is wrong, which is not at all unusual. The difference in timing between the 112 minutes you found (actually it's 112 1/2 minutes, which normally gets rounded up, so 113 minutes) and IMDb's 117 minutes is the difference between the original European PAL format and its conversion to NTSC format for North American compatibility. There will be the same difference in all films originally formatted in PAL. IMDb uses the original film timing, whether issued as PAL or NTSC.