The Structure of Crystal (Struktura krysztalu)Two science professors, once close colleagues and friends but whose lives have taken separate paths, find their quotidian existence and attitudes upturned after a reunion in a frosty, remote weather-station.
Zanussi's striking debut feature, an unassuming and sensitive black and white portrayal of a dissolving bond, won him the Polish film critics' Best Film award.
The film also marks his first collaboration (still continuing today) with the composer Wojciech Kilar, whose melancholic, spare score accentuates the crisp solitude of the European winter.
