Workers 1971: Nothing About Us Without Us

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


Robotnicy 1971: Nic o nas bez nas
reż|dir Krzysztof Kieślowski, Tomasz Zygadło | PL | 1972 | 47 min
prod|pro Mirosław Podolski scen|wr Krzysztof Kieślowski, Tomasz Zygadło zdj|ph Witold Stok, Stanisław Mroziuk, Jacek Petrycki mon|ed Lidia Zonn, Anna Maria Czołnik dys|dis WFDiF

DESCRIPTION

An attempt to look at Polish workers in the early seventies, their everyday problems and worries. After the tragic events in December 1970, Edward Gierek and his comrades with their sweet promises of building "new Poland" together, took the place of the disgraced team. The workers, however, remain critical, distrustful and still eager for rebellion. The original version of the film has never been publicly shown. The film was censored, re-edited and shortened and was – with the opposition of the authors – broadcasted on television as "Hosts".


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 z 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