GDANSKI RAILWAY STATION

DWORZEC GDAŃSKI

An attempt to cope with painful events of 1968 – an outbreak of the anti-Semitic hysteria which led to mass exile of citizens of Jewish origin from Poland. Emigrants have been meeting for 20 years in an Izraeli spa, Aszkelon, located at the Mediterranean Sea. It’s been 37 years since they left and Poland is still present at their homes. The emigrants’ stories were enriched with unique archive materials.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: pl
  • Running time: 55
  • Year: 2007

Director: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

DOP: Rafal Paradowski, Andrzej Adamczak

Editing: Grażyna Gradoń

Production company: Studio Filmowe LARGO, TVN

About the director:

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

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:

It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2008 (competition)

goEast, Wiesbaden,Germany, 2008 (competition)

EUROfEST 2008 Documentary Competition, Montreal, Kanada, 2008 (screening)

DokumentArt, Neubrandenburg, Germany/Szczecin, Poland, 2008 (competition)