AN ORDINARY COUNTRY

POLISH TITLE: ZWYCZAJNY KRAJ

Controlled conversations, recording with hidden cameras, dirty records of interrogations and recruitment attempts as well as video tutorials for the officers of the security service – all of these materials are employed to portray the monitored life in Poland under communism. Sometimes grotesque, this picture is underpinned by horror, escalating intuitively with every minute. The dramatic culmination is when the Big Brother is not just watching but violating the intimacy of an ordinary citizen. Before us, there is a terrifying communist panopticon which keeps spying on and recording itself.

GENRE:

documentary

COUNTRY:

Poland

RUNNING TIME:

51'

YEAR:

2020

COLOUR:

black and white

DIRECTING:

Tomasz Wolski

SCRIPT:

Tomasz Wolski

EDITOR:

Tomasz Wolski

PRODUCTION:

KIJORA / Anna Gawlita