MY NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

POLISH TITLE: MOJE ZAPISKI Z PODZIEMIA

This documentary is a unique opportunity to peek behind the scenes of the anti‑communist activities of the 1980s underground movement. Jan Lityński, Jacek Kuroń, Lech Wałęsa, Stefan Kisielewski and others talk about the everyday life of the oppositionists in hiding and about the political reality of the era. My Notes from the Underground comprises various recordings which were collected by an informal group (Jacek Petrycki,
Bohdan Kosiński and Marcel Łoziński) in 1982-87.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
POLAND
RUNNING TIME:
39'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Jacek Petrycki
SCRIPT:
Jacek Petrycki
DOP:
Jacek Petrycki
EDITOR:
Rafał Listopad
MUSIC:
Aleksander Musiałowski
PRODUCTION:
WFDiF (Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych)

Jacek Petrycki »

Director of photography and producer of feature movies, documentaries and teleplays, born 1948 in Poznań. The winner of BAFTA award for cinematography of the film "The Betrayed" and many foreign and Polish awards. Director of photography of some of the most famous documentaries of the 70’s: "Curriculum Vitae" and "Hospital" by Krzysztof Kieślowski, "How to live" and "Microphone Check" by Marcel Łoziński, and other documentary filmmakers. Petrycki is also a director of photography of the films of so called Cinema of Moral Anxiety trend, e.g.: "The calm" and "Camera Buff" by Krzysztof Kieślowski, "Provincial actors" and "A Lonely Woman" by Agnieszka Holland, etc.