Edmund Karwański

Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.

Agnieszka est persuadée que son idée est la bonne : réaliser un reportage sur Mateusz Birkut, ce jeune maçon devenu héros national dans les années 50, dont elle a retrouvé une statue abandonnée. Son directeur d'études tente de la dissuader, mais la jeune femme s'obstine et finit par découvrir le dessous des cartes. Un cinéaste réputé, Burski, lui raconte comment Birkut a conquis sa gloire, en posant 30 000 briques en une journée. D'autres témoins, elle apprend que son exploit lui a valu la haine d'autres ouvriers...

After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.

The young protagonist, Elżbieta, grew up in a small town bourgeois house. She rebels against the town's atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her. However, the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment. It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants. Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz.

A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.

In the mid-eighties, screenwriter and director Jaroslav Balík tried to give voice to the problems of an ambitious young woman who decides to get back to work after a few years spent on maternity leave. NFA.CZ