GDANSKI RAILWAY STATION
POLISH TITLE: DWORZEC GDAŃSKI
REPRESENTED BY KFF
An attempt to cope with painful events of 1968 – an outbreak of the anti-Semitic hysteria which led to mass exile of citizens of Jewish origin from Poland. Emigrants have been meeting for 20 years in an Izraeli spa, Aszkelon, located at the Mediterranean Sea. It’s been 37 years since they left and Poland is still present at their homes. The emigrants’ stories were enriched with unique archive materials.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- pl
- RUNNING TIME:
- 55'
- YEAR:
- 2007
- DIRECTING:
- Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
- DOP:
- Rafal Paradowski, Andrzej Adamczak
- EDITOR:
- Grażyna Gradoń
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Filmowe LARGO, TVN
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz »
Director of several dozen documentaries and TV theatre plays who has won numerous awards. She graduated from Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and from Film Directing at the Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia. The documentaries "I Am a Man" (1986) and "The Office" (1986) won her renown, in particular the latter one was showered with awards. For years, she has created film portraits of famous Poles, including Leszek Kołakowski, Czesław Miłosz and Jerzy Grotowski. Among her other well-known documentaries were: "Gdańsk Railway Station" (2008) and the biographical documentary "Wiera Gran" (2011). She is a lecturer at the Directing Department of the Film School in Łódź.
AT FESTIVALS:
- EUROfEST 2008 Documentary Competition, Montreal, Kanada, 2008 (screening)
- It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2008 (competition)
- goEast, Wiesbaden,Germany, 2008 (competition)
- DokumentArt, Neubrandenburg, Germany/Szczecin, Poland, 2008 (competition)