I LOVE POLAND
POLISH TITLE: KOCHAM POLSKĘ
In their programme under ‘Who we are’ the members of the All-Polish Youth wrote: ‘We are not from nowhere. We all are the members of a bigger community. The nation. We are Poles, for some it is a cliché and for us it is the fundamental truth. The basis of our identity.’ The All-Polish Youth fights with feminists, gays and lesbians. Their intolerance goes side by side with proudly announced attachment to Catholicism. The authors of the film are trying to answer the questions: Who are these people? Where is the source of their fundamentalism?
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 55'
- YEAR:
- 2008
- DIRECTING:
- Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Joanna Sławińska
- DOP:
- Rafal Paradowski, Andrzej Adamczak, Maciej Kaliński
- EDITOR:
- Grażyna Gradoń
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Filmowe LARGO, Agnieszka Traczewska
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.Joanna Sławińska »
A graduate of sociology at the University of Lodz. A press (‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ daily, ‘Odgłosy’) and radio journalist (since 1997 she has been working for the Polish Radio in Warsaw). In her work on a few documents she has cooperated with Piotr Morawski, Maciej Dejczer and Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 20. Polish Film Festival in America, USA, 2008 (screening)