“A portrait of a portraitist.”
For decades the photographer Krzysztof Gierłatowski has portrayed eminent Polish figures, thus creating an invaluable visual testimony. This time his "victims" are well-known citizens of Kraków: Stanisław Lem, one of the most brilliant, versatile, and unapologetically cerebral science fiction writers, author of 'Solaris'; Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the most esteemed and widely discussed Polish composers of the 20th century; and Wisława Szymborska, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1996, one of the few women poets who has received the Swedish prize. Gierłatowski assumes the role of a modern Stańczyk, a legendary thinker-jester, prophesying on the historical Polish Republic in his dramatic conviction that History annihilated the intellectual elite of his nation and the future will bring awe and destruction.
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Borys Lankosz Director · Krzysztof Gierałtowski Screenplay Marcin Koszałka Cinematographer
First release May 28, 2003 · Produced in Poland · Original title Polacy Polacy
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Telewizja Polska
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Poland
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Original title
Polacy Polacy
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Polish
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Polish
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Poland · May 28, 2003
Premiere · 43rd Kraków Film Festival
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