Russian Poland

<p>Long buried and never before published <em>Russian Poland</em> may be David Mamet's most enigmatic and haunting creation-a cinematic ghost story finally brought to light.</p><p></p><p>Written in 1993 this dreamlike screenplay fuses classic suspense with mystical storytelling and political urgency its stories-within-stories hovering between farce and prophecy tragedy and grace illuminated in the flickering light between destruction and rebirth.</p><p></p><p>At its heart are two Jewish-American World War II veterans on a covert mission to ferry arms to the nascent Israeli state in 1948. But their journey soon slips its political frame drifting into memory parable and moral reckoning.</p><p></p><p>Both caper yarn and mythic meditation <em>Russian Poland </em>reveals a master dramatist working in an unusually lyrical elusive register. An unearthed dispatch from the shadowlands of cinema history and Mamet's richly inventive creative vision <em>Russian Poland</em> is a haunting reflection on exile faith and the resilient thread of cultural memory that binds generations.</p>