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This director’s father worked at the Weigel Institute during the Nazi occupation of Lviv, which inspired a film wherein the protagonist gets a job at a laboratory that employs citizens to provide blood to lice infected with typhus. In another film by this director, a lone scientist is sent to a planet that had earlier been settled by a group of astronauts, where he is revered as a god before eventually being crucified. In a third film by this director of (*) The Third Part of the Night, a boy hides in a bathtub as the sounds of bombs are heard while the camera zooms into the face of the schoolteacher Helen. That film by this director includes a scene where the Isabelle Adjani-played Anna writhes around and smashes groceries on the wall of a subway as she suffers a graphic miscarriage. For 10 points, name this Polish director of On the Silver Globe and Possession. ■END■ (10[1])

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