HITTING THE RIGHT KEYS

TRZEBA UDERZAĆ WE WŁAŚCIWE KLAWISZE

The documentary offers an opportunity to find out more about the jazzman, pianist and composer of international renown, Adam Makowicz. The protagonist, who went to New York in the late 1970s and has been travelling between Poland and the USA until today, describes the circumstances of finding himself in the jazz Mecca. The story is supplemented by interviews with such artists as Tomasz Stańko or Ryszard Horowitz who met Makowicz at different stages of his long and successful career.

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Genre: Dokumentalny
Country: Poland
Running time: 57
Year: 2011

Director: Ignacy Szczepański

Script: Ignacy Szczepański

DOP: Paweł Sobczyk, Grzegorz Liwiński

Music: Adam Makowicz

Editing: Grzegorz Liwiński, Ignacy Szczepański

Production company: Studio Filmowe Wir

About the director:

Ignacy Szczepański

Ignacy Szczepański was born in 1951. He graduated from Philosophy and Philology, and then studied directing at the Polish National School in Łódź. He has made over fourty documentary films, many of them award-winning, including “Life goes on”, “Half a lifetime later”, “According to Mrożek” ,“So my thought unrolls” and many others. He is also the author of several books, national publications. He is also the member of the board of the documentary section at Polish Filmmakers Association.