JUREK
On 24 October 1989, Jerzy Kukuczka dies during the Lhotse expedition. It was the first time when we went to the Himalayas with money, equipment, and as a really famous person. The documentary film by Paweł Wysoczański does not, however, concentrate on the mystery of the Himalayan mountaineer’s death. It shows a person who climbs up, higher and higher – literally, but also metaphorically and symbolically. From a bootblack to a millionaire, from a socialist worker to an international media star, from the man who climbs without any money and equipment to the real competitor of Reinhold Messner in the competition to climb the Crown of the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Interviews with family and friends, archives, photographs, recordings, excerpts from television programmes and interviews make up the portrait of the Himalayan mountaineers in 1980s. It is also the image of the times in which they lived – hard and colourful at the same time, when idealism was valued more than fame.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Polska
- Running time: 73
- Year: 2015
- Color: kolorowy
Director: Paweł Wysoczański
Script: Paweł Wysoczański
DOP: Jacek Kędzierski
Music: Michał Lorenc
Editing: Grzegorz Mazur, Adriana Słoniec
Production company: Black and White Productions
