Jacek Knopp

Under the influence of a boy she met, a student rebels against the old man with whom she lives.

The play by Wojciech Tomczyk. The topic taken up by Wojciech Tomczyk is a very hot one, dealing with the still painful settlements with the People's Republic of Poland, the problem of victims and executioners, entangled in the communist and post-communist system. A retired military counterintelligence officer is approached by a journalist. Hanka wants to get information about the colonel with whom our retiree met at the infantry school, where they studied since the fall of 1953. Stefan Kolodziej, however, has other plans. He wants to tell Hanka his biography, which is suspiciously intertwined with the journalist's life. The Colonel's confession reveals the horrifying cesspool of communism: finished people, destroyed families and careers.

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Weaves together the personal recollections of four Polish survivors of the Holocaust with original footage from the present day. The film focuses specifically on the relations between Jews and Poles in Nazi occupied Poland.

Collective heroes of the film: men, women from across the eastern border. Belarusians, Russians. In Poland they found a chance for a better existence. Many have education, often higher education, but they work on construction sites. Ten hours a day at a time. They are treated as second- or third-class people. They are required to do more than Polish workers, and paid much less. They accept this. They have no choice.

Witold Kaczanowski is one of Poland’s best-known artists, much more famous abroad than in his country of origin. He was born in Poland and spent his childhood under German occupation. Since 1980 he has lived and worked in the USA, where his art attracted numerous admirers and collectors.

Julian Stryjkowski, writer and philosopher, author of the novels "Bieg do Fragala" (The Run to Fragal), "Pożegnanie z Italią" (Farewell to Italy), "Głosy w ciemności" (Voices in the Dark), "Czarna róża" (The Black Rose), "Austeria" (The Inn), "Wielki strach" (The Great Fear), "Odpowiedź" (The Answer), and "King David Lives," recalls his childhood and his first literary experiences. He evokes the forgotten world of small Galician towns, recounts the traditions of the home where he grew up, and tells of his mother, siblings, and neighbors—the people who shaped the world of his childhood.

A kind of film essay on the life and work of Gustav Herling-Grudzinski. The writer's story about his life is interspersed with documentary footage shot in Naples, where he has lived for thirty years (hence the title), and in Warsaw, during a visit to Poland in 1994.

"If God had had more experience with man, he would have created him in Jack's likeness." These words of Lechoslaw Gozdzik, the legendary leader of the Żerań workers in October 1956, may seem blasphemous to many.