VERA GRAN

WIERA GRAN

Did a well-known cabaret singer from the Warsaw ghetto tarnish her reputation with the collaboration with Gestapo? This question recedes into the background. The director, following Agata Tuszyńska, the author of Oskarżona: Wiera Gran, goes beyond the boundaries of a biographical picture or investigative documentary. Reconstructing the artist’s wartime and post-war life, the film touches upon the issue of moral judgment that is often too easy to pass – both for those who have never experienced the hell of war and for those who survived and need unambiguous assessment.

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Genre: Dokumentalny
Running time: 67
Year: 2012

Director: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Script: Agata Tuszyńska

DOP: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt

Editing: Grażyna Gradoń

Production company: Studio Filmowe LARGO

About the director:

Director of several dozen documentaries and TV theatre plays who has won numerous awards. She graduated from Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and from Film Directing at the Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia. The documentaries "I Am a Man" (1986) and "The Office" (1986) won her renown, in particular the latter one was showered with awards. For years, she has created film portraits of famous Poles, including Leszek Kołakowski, Czesław Miłosz and Jerzy Grotowski. Among her other well-known documentaries were: "Gdańsk Railway Station" (2008) and the biographical documentary "Wiera Gran" (2011). She is a lecturer at the Directing Department of the Film School in Łódź.

At festivals:

24. Polish Film Festival in America, 2012 (screening)

International Film Festival Watch Docs - Human Rights in Film, 2012 (competition)