HOW TO LIVE?
POLISH TITLE: JAK ŻYĆ
An exemplary family contest is run at a Union of Young Polish Socialists camp for young couples. The campers and the camp manager are unaware that the participation of two couples is a set-up. Compliance with strict competition standards becomes a source of a conflict.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 83'
- YEAR:
- 1977
- DIRECTING:
- Marcel Łoziński
- DOP:
- Jacek Petrycki
- EDITOR:
- Łucja Ośko
- PRODUCTION:
- WFDiF (Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych), Zespół Filmowy X
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)
- Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (screening)
- IDFA 2014, The Netherlands, 2014 (screening)
- True/False FF, USA, 2015 (screening)