Generations

Date
Hour
Place
01/08
12:30
THE SMALL CINEMA


Pokolenia
reż|dir Janusz Zaorski | PL | 2016 | 105 min
prod|pro Barbara Ławska scen|wr Janusz Zaorski zdj|ph Andrzej Wolf muz|mus Robert Krawczyk mon|ed Janusz Zaorski ob|cast Łukasz Jaczewski dys|dis SF Kronika

DESCRIPTION

Generations is a feature-length documentary drama produced to celebrate the anniversary of the Feature Film Studios in Wrocław. It is a story of contemporary Poland told using pieces of works made by the Feature Film Studios. The director selected little less than forty of out the four hundred and fifty titles produced in Wrocław. The movie clips, from A Generation by Wajda through films directed by Chęciński, Has, Kutz and Polański to those by Holland, Kieślowski, Marczewski, Zanussi and many others, combine into a tale of Poles over time, from the Nazi occupation through the terror of the Stalinist era, “small stabilization” of the late 1950s to early 1960s, the March 1968 political crisis, unfulfilled hopes of Gierek’s years and the period of martial law right to the breakthrough elections of 4 June 1989. Our guide to the contemporary Film Studios and Wrocław is… Zbyszek Cybulski, a legendary Polish actor, who found his tragic death in an accident in Wrocław.


DIRECTOR
Polish director, writer and actor. Graduate from the Direction Department, Lodz Film School. Author of award-winning feature films recognized at international festivals, including The Mother of Kings, for which he won the Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, and Sons and Comrades, which was awarded the Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival. His specialties are historical period dramas (e.g. Siberian Exile) and comedies (such as Soccer Poker or Hacker). He spoke to Stanisław Zawiśliński in an extended interview book Jaja, serce, łeb. Member of the European Film Academy.

FILMOGRAPHY
2016 Pokolenia|The Generations
2013 Syberiada polska|Siberian Exile
2005 Lekarz drzew|Tree Doctor
2002 Haker|Hacker
1997 Szczęśliwego Nowego Jorku|Happy New York
1988 Piłkarski poker|Soccer Poker
1985 Jezioro Bodeńskie|Sons and Comrades
1985 Baryton|The Baritone
1981 Dziecinne pytania|Childish Questions
1982 Matka Królów|The Mother of Kings
1977 Pokój z widokiem na morze|A Room with a View on the Sea
1974 Awans|Promotion
1972 Uciec jak najbliżej|Run Away Nearly

© Festiwal Filmu i Sztuki Dwa Brzegi Kazimierz Dolny Janowiec nad Wisłą
Projekt i realizacja: Tomasz Żewłakow