Studio Largo

Polish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish.

Such a film should be made. The phenomenon that is the All-Polish Youth in Poland needs to be analyzed and looked at carefully with the "patient eye" of a documentary filmmaker. Until now, we have only viewed the All-Polish Youth through hurried news or journalistic discussions. Who are the people who make up this organization? What are their motivations? The path of life? What caused them to get involved in social and political activities? These are just some of the questions this film asks to find out the answer to the question of why the idea of a pre-war youth organization has become important and carried in modern Poland. The heroes of the film are both the leaders of this organization and its ordinary members. We want to look at Poland through their eyes. What does it mean for them today to fight for Poland, what does it mean - to be a Pole? How do they want to instill their radical patriotism in others?

On January 30, 1968, the staging of "Dziady", directed by Kazimierz Dejmek, was taken off the billboard of the capital's National Theater. Warsaw students protested against the decision of the highest party and state authorities - after all, it was not made independently and courageously by censors from the nomen omen Mysia Street - by convening a rally at the monument to Adam Mickiewicz.

A documentary film featuring the profiles of six young people living in Poland. They are united by their age. The protagonists of the film are a young farmer, an unemployed graduate of Foreign Trade, a feminist, a young politician active in the Green Party 2004. We also meet a writer writing anti-consumerist novels, a graphic designer working as a producer of photo shoots (known for her popular blog on the web). The authors of the film for several months accompanied them at work, moments of entertainment, meetings with friends, we see their joys and sorrows.

For years, on the evening of December 12, on the anniversary of the introduction of martial law in Poland, demonstrations have been held outside Wojciech Jaruzelski's house. On such an evening in 2000, Teresa Torańska and her film crew pay him a visit.

It is 2001. At a private journalism school, Professor Edward Wnuk-Lipiński asks seminar participants if they know who Albin Siwak was. They do not. Only one person has heard his name. For these young people, it is already history, and not necessarily something they need to learn about.

A biographical portrait of Leszek Kolakowski, an outstanding philosopher and historian of ideas, certainly the most respected contemporary Polish intellectual in the world. It is a cinematic story of his ideological and personal life until 1968 (that is, the date of his departure from Poland).