THE SWIMMING POOL
POLISH TITLE: BASEN
The story of closed swimming pool at Nakielska Street in Bydgoszcz. Nowadays it is a dispirited, overgrown ruin. However, the director found the second face of this place — seen through memories of inhabitants of Bydgoszcz, who had been relaxing for years here. For them this ruined swimming pool is a piece of their adolescence and reminiscence of happy moments.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 11'
- YEAR:
- 2010
- DIRECTING:
-
Krzysztof Nowicki
- SCRIPT:
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Krzysztof Nowicki
- PRODUCTION:
- Krzysztof Nowicki
Krzysztof Nowicki was born in 1980 in Bydgoszcz (Poland). Director, screenwriter and producer. Since his student days he has been creating independent cinema. He was the founder of the Stealtheapple film group, and in 2007 he launched Koloroffon. For the last dozen or so years, he has been creating short documentary films that have been presented and awarded at festivals in Poland and abroad ("The Oldest Man in the World", "The Swimming Pool", "The cinema was here", "21", "Homestay"). Premiere of his last film titled "Leocadia's dream" took place at Hot Docs in Toronto in 2018. The film was presented at several international festivals. "Three chants" is his debut in a feature length documentary.
