When protests broke out in Communist Poland in late 1970, a crisis team gathered in Warsaw. Soon after the militia made use of their batons. Shots were fired. Through archival recordings and animations, viewers are able to observe various power mechanisms. The film “1970” is a story about a rebellion but told from the perspective of the oppressors.
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“Wolski has the advantage of accessible archives to shed light on a different perspective of civil unrest: the then-secret machinations and methods of a cynical regime as it tried to make a very vocal problem go away.”
“Wolski has the advantage of accessible archives to shed light on a different perspective of civil unrest: the then-secret machinations and methods of a cynical regime as it tried to make a very vocal problem go away.”
Tomasz Wolski
Biography
Member of Guild of Polish Documentary Directors, Polish Film Academy and European Film Academy. Director of short film “Daughter” (Grand Prix at Angers Premiers Plan) and director, editor, cinematographer of 13 documentaries awarded at many international festivals like Visions du Réel, Los Angeles Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, Punto de Vista, Camerimage and Krakow Film Festival.
Filmography
- 1970 (Documentary) – 2021
- An Ordinary Country (Documentary) – 2021
- A Problem (Short) – 2020
- Festiwal (Documentary) (co-director) – 2017
- Córka (Short) – 2015
- Nie dla kazdego (Documentary short) – 2013
- Palac (Documentary) – 2012
- Lekarze (Documentary) – 2011
- Pomalu (Documentary short) – 2010
- Szczesciarze (Documentary short) – 2009
- Zlota rybka (Documentary) – 2008
- Klinika (Documentary short) – 2006
- If I Were a Fish (Documentary short) – 2005
