BRAVE NEW WORLD
POLISH TITLE: NOWY WSPANIAŁY ŚWIAT
The film makes a portrait of intellectual Polish left movement calls “Political Critique”, and depicts a conflict between this left-wing group and a right-wing power on the Polish political stage. Fight for the headquarters of „Political Critique” in Warsaw – well located in the heart of downtown – is a manifestation of the conflict between two mainstreams of politicians.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 56'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
- SCRIPT:
- Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Lucyna Kowalska
- DOP:
- Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Jacek Taszakowski, Marcin Ściegliński, Dariusz Kowalski
- EDITOR:
- Grażyna Gradoń
- MUSIC:
- Lech Janerka
- PRODUCTION:
- Ragusa Film (Lucyna Kowalska)
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz »
Director of several dozen documentaries and TV theatre plays who has won numerous awards. She graduated from Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and from Film Directing at the Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia. The documentaries "I Am a Man" (1986) and "The Office" (1986) won her renown, in particular the latter one was showered with awards. For years, she has created film portraits of famous Poles, including Leszek Kołakowski, Czesław Miłosz and Jerzy Grotowski. Among her other well-known documentaries were: "Gdańsk Railway Station" (2008) and the biographical documentary "Wiera Gran" (2011). She is a lecturer at the Directing Department of the Film School in Łódź.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)