THE MICROPHONE TEST
POLISH TITLE: PRÓBA MIKROFONU
A Warsaw Pollena-Uroda cosmetics factory radio broadcaster is working on a programme investigating the workers' sense of factory ownership. The workers' answers come as a surprise, especially to the management. About the ruling and the ruled in communist Poland.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 19'
- YEAR:
- 1980
- DIRECTING:
- Marcel Łoziński
- DOP:
- Jacek Petrycki
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
- PRODUCTION:
- WFDiF (Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych)
Marcel Łoziński »
Born in 1940 in Paris. He earned his degree in Film Directing from Łódź Film School. He has made a number of excellent documentaries, which include The Visit (1974), Front Collision (1975), How to Live (1977), Microphone’s Test (1980), Practice Exercises (1984), Anything Can Happen (1995), So It Doesn’t Hurt (1998), How It’s Done (2006) and was nominated to the European Academy Award and American Oscar for his documentary film entitled 89 mm from Europe (1993). For the past four years he has been the head of the documentary programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
AT FESTIVALS:
- DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2010 (screening)
- Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (screening)
- 7th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2007 (competition)