HEAR ME CRY
POLISH TITLE: USŁYSZCIE MÓJ KRZYK
The story of Ryszard Siwiec, a clerk from Przemyśl. In September, 1968, during a harvest festival at the 10th Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw, in front of thousands of people he poured benzene over himself and lit it in protest against the communist totalitarianism and the entrance of Warsaw Pact forces into Czechoslovakia. Severely burned, Siwiec was transferred to the hospital where he died. His sacrifice passed unnoticed. His name did not appear on the front pages of neither Polish, nor western papers. After many years, the creator of the film, on the basis of the preserved documents, confessions of relatives and eyewitnesses of the event tries to find out who Ryszard Siwiec was and the cause of his readiness to do such a terrible thing.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 46'
- YEAR:
- 1991
- DIRECTING:
- Maciej Drygas
- SCRIPT:
- Maciej Drygas
- DOP:
- Stanisław Śliskowski
- EDITOR:
- Dorota Wardęszkiewicz
- PRODUCTION:
- Zespół Filmowy Zodiak, Studio Filmowe Logos
Maciej Drygas »
scriptwriter and documentary film director born in 1956 in Łódź. After graduation from the Film Directing Department at Moscow’s VGIK in 1981 he worked with Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieślowski as a director’s assistant. His documentaries include False Start (1981), Psychotherapy (1984), Hear My Cry (1991), State of Weightlessness (1994), Głos nadziei (2002), One Day in People’s Poland (2005). He has won a number of festival awards in, among others, Mumbai, Huston, Tai Pei, Monte Carlo, San Francisco, Nyon and Kraków. Currently he teaches at the Film School in Łódź.- DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2010 (screening)
- True/False FF, USA, 2015 (screening)
- Flahertiana Film Festival, Russia, 2017 (screening)
- 34th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (screening)
- San Francisco International Film Festival, USA, 1991, (Golden Gate Award)
- Festival International de Cinema VISIONS DU RÉEL, Switzerland, 1991, (Silver Sesterce)
- European Film Awards 1991, (European Documentary Film of the Year)
- Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia, 1991 (competition)