THE SIBERIAN LESSONS

POLISH TITLE: SYBERYJSKA LEKCJA

 In 1996, Wojciech Staron documented Malgosia, his girlfriend, as she traveled the Siberian city Usolie-Sibirskoe and gave Polish language lessons to the descendants of exiled Poles. Captured on beautiful 16mm film, Siberian Lesson is the candid diary of a young teacher acclimating and falling in love, as well as a portrait of a community still reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
58'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Wojciech Staroń
SCRIPT:
Wojciech Staroń
DOP:
Wojciech Staroń
EDITOR:
Zbigniew Osiński
MUSIC:
Agata Steczkowska
PRODUCTION:
Studio Filmowe KRONIKA

Wojciech Staroń »

Born in 1973 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. Graduate of the Cinematography Department of the Polish Film School in Lodz and of the Postgraduate Programme at the Institute of Developing Countries of Warsaw University. Cinematographer of many documentaries, feature films (among others Plac Zbawiciela / Saviour Square by Krzysztof Krauze) and TV shows. He is also professionally occupied with photography and has had a number of individual exhibitions, while his photographs have been awarded prizes in many competitions, for example the Grand Prix Europeen de la Photographie in Lille, 1991. In 2001-2003 he cooperated with the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, where he worked on multimedia projections accompanying shows directed by Régis Obadia.