Date
Hour
Place
01/08
19:15
THE SMALL CINEMA
Szkoła podstawowa
reż|dir Tomasz Zygadło | PL | 1971 | 16 min
prod|pro Waldemar Kowalski zdj|ph Piotr Jaxa-Kwiatkowski mon|ed Elżbieta Kurkowska, Anna Maria Czołnik dys|dis WFDiF
DESCRIPTION
A brilliant documentary debut of Tomasz Zygadło. The director in the film lets the pupils of the elementary school speak. Teens and children talk about themselves, about the teaching system, about their colleagues – mostly not in the optimistic words. A model student is a future conformist citizen. The film fully echoes the director's extraordinary sense, phenomenal sociological "listen to reality."
AWARDS
1971 ISFF Cracow – The Grand Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art Golden Dragon1971 PFF Cracow – Polish Film Critics’ Award Bronze Hobby-Horse Award
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 Life1982 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
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