300 mil do nieba
reż|dir Maciej Dejczer | PL, DK, FR | 1989 | 93 min
prod|pro Iwona Ziułkowska, Lise Lense-Moller, Didier Brunner scen|wr Cezary Harasimowicz, Maciej Dejczer zdj|ph Krzysztof Ptak muz|mus Michał Lorenc mon|ed Jarosław Wołejko dźwięk|sound Piotr Domaradzki ob|cast Wojciech Klata, Rafał Zimowski, Kama Kowalewska, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, Andrzej Mellin dys|dis Studio Filmowe TOR
Director of photography in charge of artistic supervision over restoration: Michał Sobociński. Director of digital sound remastering: Piotr Domaradzki.
Technology processes related to digitalisation, digital restoration and DI processes are responsibility of the Polish National Film Archive – National Audiovisual Institute (FINA).
In 1985, two Zielinski brothers, 15-year-old Adam and 12-year-old Krzysztof, made their way to Sweden hidden under the chassis of a truck. The Polish authorities were determined to bring them back home, whatever the cost. The boys’ parents did not demand extradition as they thought the boys should decide their fate for themselves. As a result, the parents were stripped of their parental authority. Both boys remained in Sweden and lived with a foster family until they became of age. They saw Maciej Dejczer’s film at the Congress of Human and Citizen Rights in Strasbourg in 1989. They said that it fully reflected their experiences. The film characters, Jędrek and Grześ, live in hardship with their parents and numerous siblings in a living wagon. Their father, a history teacher, has been fired twice on the grounds of his political views. The boys want to make their dream of a better life come true and escape to the West.
1990 Cannes International Film Festival — Young Jury Prize
1990 Gdynia Polish Film Festival — Polish Federation of Film Societies Award; Foreign Journalists Award; Best Directing Debut; Best Cinematography (Krzysztof Ptak); nominated for the Golden Lions
2004 Walker
2000 Budka Suflera w Nowym Jorku
1998 Kieszonkowcy
1997 Bandyta|Brute
1989 300 mil do nieba|300 Miles to Heaven
1986 Dzieci śmieci
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