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April 23 - May 1, 2005

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TO THE OFFSPRING

Do potomnego, 2004, 52'

Sunday, May 1, 2:00 p.m.


Director Antoni Krauze
Screenplay Antoni Krauze
Cinematography Jacek Petrycki
Music Zygmunt Konieczny 
Producer Wlodzimierz Niderhaus, Tadeusz Filipkowski , Anna Jakubowska
Cast

Dariusz Wnuk (Young Witold Zalewski), Janusz Radek (Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski), Marcin Przybylski  (Tadeusz Gajcy), Bartek Porczyk (Zdzislaw Stroinski ), Lukasz Ploszajski (Andrzej Trzebinski ), Adam Malecki (Waclaw Bojarski )

 

The tragic life story of five young poets: Baczynski, Gajcy, Stroinski, Trzebinski and Bojarski, killed in the 1944 Warsaw uprising. The movie was originally shown on Polish TV as a part of the Uprising 60th Anniversary celebration and includes many original documentaries. The narrator, Witold Zalewski, fought in the same unit as Gajcy and Stroinski. The first night of the uprising he read Gajcy’s diary which was left at a deserted Warsaw apartment. Soon the diary burned together with the whole building…