SO IT DOESN'T HURT
POLISH TITLE: ŻEBY NIE BOLAŁO
Second part of "Wizyta", made twenty-four years later. Urszula Flis, the woman who runs a country farm on her own, is revisited by the photo-reporter Erazm Ciolek and the "Gazeta Wyborcza" journalist Agnieszka Kublik. The film makes a reference to the first visit, which focused on the interference of the media in Flis's life, the attempts of the communist Polish propaganda to manipulate her. A film about loneliness, lost (or won?) life, the limits of filmmakers' interference in the life of a documentary protagonist. Flis herself sets such a limit, saying "let it not hurt".
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 48'
- YEAR:
- 1998
- DIRECTING:
- Marcel Łoziński
- SCRIPT:
- Marcel Łoziński
- DOP:
- Jacek Petrycki
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk, Lidia Zonn
- PRODUCTION:
- TVP 1 S.A., Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop, Agencja Produkcji Filmowej
Marcel Łoziński »
Born in 1940 in Paris. He earned his degree in Film Directing from Łódź Film School. He has made a number of excellent documentaries, which include The Visit (1974), Front Collision (1975), How to Live (1977), Microphone’s Test (1980), Practice Exercises (1984), Anything Can Happen (1995), So It Doesn’t Hurt (1998), How It’s Done (2006) and was nominated to the European Academy Award and American Oscar for his documentary film entitled 89 mm from Europe (1993). For the past four years he has been the head of the documentary programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
AT FESTIVALS:
- DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2010 (screening)
- Different ages, different voices: Polish Women in Film, USA, 2013 (screening)
- Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (screening)
- DOK Leipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 1998, (Golden Dove, “Don Quijote” Award)
- Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia, (Special Jury Prize)
- Bornholm Film Festival, Denmark, 1998, (III Prize)