JUREK

On 24 October 1989, Jerzy Kukuczka dies during the Lhotse expedition. It was the first time when we went to the Himalayas with money, equipment, and as a really famous person. The documentary film by Paweł Wysoczański does not, however, concentrate on the mystery of the Himalayan mountaineer's death. It shows a person who climbs up, higher and higher – literally, but also metaphorically and symbolically. From a bootblack to a millionaire, from a socialist worker to an international media star, from the man who climbs without any money and equipment to the real competitor of Reinhold Messner in the competition to climb the Crown of the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Interviews with family and friends, archives, photographs, recordings, excerpts from television programmes and interviews make up the portrait of the Himalayan mountaineers in 1980s. It is also the image of the times in which they lived – hard and colourful at the same time, when idealism was valued more than fame.

GENRE:

documentary

COUNTRYI:

Polska

RUNNING TIME:

73'

YEAR:

2015

DIRECTING:

Paweł Wysoczański

SCRIPT:

Paweł Wysoczański

DOP:

Jacek Kędzierski

EDITOR:

Grzegorz Mazur, Adriana Słoniec

PRODUCER:

Black and White Productions