A DAY IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF POLAND
POLISH TITLE: JEDEN DZIEŃ W PRL
Nothing special had happened on that day in the People’s Republic of Poland. The weather forecast predicted moderate clouds. Over 1600 citizens were born and about 600 died. A day like every day… Police reports, control protocols, complaints, letters from the army and to the prison and also to the newspaper or radio programme Fala 56, a poem by Father Twardowski taken off by censors; and all this under the date of 27 September 1962.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 58'
- YEAR:
- 2005
- DIRECTING:
- Maciej Drygas
- SCRIPT:
- Maciej Drygas
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
- MUSIC:
- Paweł Szymański
- PRODUCTION:
- Drygas Production
Maciej Drygas »
scriptwriter and documentary film director born in 1956 in Łódź. After graduation from the Film Directing Department at Moscow’s VGIK in 1981 he worked with Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieślowski as a director’s assistant. His documentaries include False Start (1981), Psychotherapy (1984), Hear My Cry (1991), State of Weightlessness (1994), Głos nadziei (2002), One Day in People’s Poland (2005). He has won a number of festival awards in, among others, Mumbai, Huston, Tai Pei, Monte Carlo, San Francisco, Nyon and Kraków. Currently he teaches at the Film School in Łódź.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Flahertiana Film Festival, Russia, 2017 (screening)
- Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, (Special Jury Award)
- 40th Houston Worldfest Independent Film Festival, USA, 2007 (Platinum Remi)