Joanna Grudzinska
2009 - 55 min - DV Cam - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - Belgique
"The precursor of Solidarnosc, the KOR (Komitet Obrony Robotników – Workers’ Defence Committee) was founded in 1976, in the wake of a wildcat strike to protest against soaring food prices. The KOR, which claimed to follow Christian ethics but with no god, was to federate the workers’ movement and pave the way for a free Polish trades union movement. One year after the creation of Solidarnosc, the KOR disbanded, considering that it had fulfilled its mission.
Joanna Grudzinska’s film traces this little known history of the social struggles in Poland, revisiting places and going back in time with the movement’s founders, Jan Litynski, Henryk Wujec and Joanna Szczesna, who root out from old cardboard boxes parchment-like copies of Robotnik (The Worker), faded tracts, and preciously preserved stencils." (Yann Lardeau)
Author-Director : Joanna Grudzinska
Photography : Benoît Dervaux
Sound : Jaroslaw Bajdowski
Editing : Yannick Leroy
Delegate Producer : Dérives
Co-producer : Camera Obscura
Co-producer : Novembre productions
Broadcasting Co-producer : RTBF Bruxelles
Contribution : Région Wallonne, Loterie nationale, Ministère de la Culture, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FWB), Institut du film polonais, Bourse Villa Médicis "Hors les murs", Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique
Distribution
Distributor : WIP (Wallonie Image Production)
DVD Editing : Doc Net Films, WIP (Wallonie Image Production)
Disponible au Club du doc
Distinctions
2010 - Cinéma du réel, Paris (France) : Panorama français2010 - Planete Doc Review Film Festival, Varsovie (Pologne) : Sélection