Made in Poland

Date
Hour
Place
01/08
19:15
THE SMALL CINEMA


Made in Poland
reż|dir Tomasz Zygadło | PL | 1968 | 9 min
prod|pro Józef Siwek zdj|ph Grzegorz Kędzierski mon|ed Lidia Zonn ob|cast Jerzy Matula, Preben Osterfelt dys|dis Studio Indeks

DESCRIPTION

One of the four school etudes by Tomasz Zygadło. Foreign tourist goes to Poland. He took with him all the necessary things: a guide to our country, a camera and the latest issue of "Playboy". It turns out that the mentality of the foreigner facing Polish reality creates extremely funny situations.


DIRECTOR
Tomasz Zygadło (1947-2011) documental filmmaker, film and theatre director, screenwriter and actor. Initially, he was mainly a documentary film director. He made his cinema debut with the film “Rebus” (1977), but he gained real fame three years later for the film “Ćma” / ”The Moth” (1980), featuring an outstanding performance by Roman Wilhelmi (best actor award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and the festival in Moscow), as a radio journalist at a critical moment of his life. The black-and-white film was shot by the director’s brother – cinematographer Jacek Zygadło. In the 1990s, he directed mainly television spectacles, he also directed plays in several theatres, in Łódź, Krakow and Warsaw. He had cameos in several films (including Wajda’s and Kieślowski’s), he also starred in films he directed.

FILMOGRAPHY
1985 Sceny dziecięce z życia prowincji|Child’s Scenes of Provincial Life
1982 Z kraju i ze świata| From the Country and from the World
1980 Ćma|The Moth
1977 Rebus
1976 Mikrofon dla wszystkich|A Microphone for Everyone
1975 Miłość|Love
1972 Gospodarze|Hosts
1971 Szkoła podstawowa|Primary School
1968 Made in Poland|Made in Poland

© Festiwal Filmu i Sztuki Dwa Brzegi Kazimierz Dolny Janowiec nad Wisłą
Projekt i realizacja: Tomasz Żewłakow