Event

AN ORDINARY MARCH + GDANSKI RAILWAY STATION

LARGO FILM STUDIO RESTROSPECTIVE

AN ORDINARY MARCH [ZWYCZAJNY MARZEC]
2008, 57 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
Dir. MARIA ZMARZ-KOCZANOWICZ
The title is an allusion to Mikhail Romms Ordinary Fascism, a documentary about the birth of totalitarianism shown only through the images employed by officially approved propaganda that accompanied it. Year 1968. Suddenly Mickiewiczs The Forefathers are taken off the theatre stage of the National Theatre. Reason: the audience would applaud during wrong moments. The university students raise protesting voices. At the same time, Commander Gomulka, the head of the Polish Communist Party, gives his speech promoting anti-Semitism. Suddenly, it all blends together and riot begins. Accused of conspiracy, university students are interrogated, and then land in prisons. A retrospective journey with commentary of a former student and the opposition activist Adam Michnik.

GDANSKI RAILWAY STATION [DWORZEC GDANSKI]
2006, 55 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
Dir. MARIA ZMARZ-KOCZANOWICZ
An attempt to confront with the painful events of the year 1968 the outbreak of anti-Semitic hysteria that resulted in many citizens of Jewish origin leaving Poland. For 20 years emigrants have been meeting in Israeli resort of Ashkelon by the Mediterranean Sea. Thirty seven years have passed since they left, yet Poland is still present in their homes. Gdanski Railway Station from which they departed is now the symbol of their exile, the symbol of a turning point that splits their lives in two parts.