KOTAN'S CHILDREN

POLISH TITLE: DZIECI KOTANA

Marek Kotański, aka Kotan, who died ten years ago, left behind not only a network of therapy centres for the addicted and the excluded, but also people whom he had helped. Today ‘Kotan’s children’ continue his task and are deeply involved in MONAR’s work. They remember their mentor – unconventional psychotherapist and committed social activist who believed in the idea of mutual help in therapy and who did not pass easy judgments on his patients. 

GENRE:
documentary
RUNNING TIME:
70'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Mirosław Dembiński
SCRIPT:
Mirosław Dembiński
DOP:
Tomasz Ziółkowski, Marcin Sciegielski
EDITOR:
Mirosław Dembiński
PRODUCTION:
Studio Filmowe Everest

Mirosław Dembiński »

Born in 1959 in Bydgoszcz. He is a graduate of mathematics at the Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń (1983) and the Film Directing Department at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź (1990). In 1991 he established the Everest Film Studio, where he produced 44 films. He is an author of documentaries, among them being: Owoce ziemi czarnej (1992), Ganek (1998), Icarus (1999), Shared flight (2003), which were awarded more than 50 times, among others in Oberhausen, San Francisco, Calcutta and Krakow. A Lesson of Belorussian has already been awarded in Amsterdam, Leipzig, Kielce and Łódź.