Joanna Grudzinska
2022 - 77 min - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - France, Pologne
Zuzanna Ginczanka was born in the middle of the Russian Revolutions, in Kyiv. In this year 1917, the city had just turned into the capital of Soviet Ukraine. She grew up in the young independent Polish Republic, in a region which is now part of Ukraine, before settling in Warsaw to fulfill her literary career.
Yet the Second World War broke out. It forced her to go and hide in Lviv, invaded by Soviet Russia and then taken by the Nazis in 1941. Three years later, she was murdered in jail in Krakow, aged 27.
Zuzanna Ginczanka belongs to the first generation of the Polish-educated Jewish intelligentsia, in a geography which no longer exists and is today stained with blood. We decided to tell her poetry and her life backwards, from her death to her birth.
A present-time narrative, made up to tell a dazzling path which expressed in a sensual, feminist and rebellious artwork.
Author-Director : Joanna Grudzinska
Photography : Pawel Labe, Anu Czerwiński, Kostyantyn Gnitetskiy
Sound : Anna Rok, Jan Boguszewski
Editing : Rodolphe Molla
Original Music : Julien Ribot
Delegate Producer : Les Films du Bilboquet
Broadcasting Co-producer : Lyon Capitale TV
Contribution : Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Pictanovo, Le Fresnoy (Studio national des Arts contemporains), Fondation Rothschild, Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah, PISF (Institut polonais du film), Fondation Jan Michalski, Société Civile Varsano, CNC. Aide à l'écriture, Procirep, Angoa-Agicoa