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THE PRESIDENT

POLISH TITLE: PREZYDENT

A psychological portrait of Tadeusz Pierzyna who, after surviving a period of misery and hunger in his early years, promised himself to become president and to not experience hunger anymore. This dream becomes his obsession. The fear of hunger caused him to focus entirely on producing articles of food and to engage in a struggle to find uses forwaste. The film was made at Tadeusz Pierzyna’s farm and features him as one of the pioneers of an environmentally conscious approach to the production of food. 

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
20'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Andrzej Fidyk
SCRIPT:
Andrzej Fidyk
DOP:
Mikolaj Nesterowicz
EDITOR:
Jolanta Kreczmańska
PRODUCTION:
TVP S.A.

Andrzej Fidyk »

is a dir­ector and scriptwriter of doc­u­ment­ary films and report­ages made for the Pol­ish Tele­vi­sion, a gradu­ate of Warsaw School of Eco­nom­ics Depart­ment of For­eign Trade. He began work­ing for TV in 1980 as a res­ult of a com­pet­i­tion for pro­duc­tion man­agers. From 1996 to 2004 he was the chief editor of doc­u­ment­ary films in TVP1.  He was the ori­gin­ator of pro­grammes such as: “Time for doc­u­ment­ary”, “Eyes wide open”, and the author of widely acclaimed films, includ­ing “Parade”, “Dance of the reeds”, and “Mobile cinema of dreams”.