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The Round Table talks and the first, partially free, parliamentary elections in June 1989 brought hope for better future for many, also prisoners, often convicted because of minor criminal and economic offences. Great hopes for amnesty aroused at first soon billowed into disappointment, discontent and revolt. The documentary presents the largest prison riots in Europe after World War II that took place in the penitentiaries in Nowogard, Czarne and Goleniów.

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  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Qatar
  • Running time: 55
  • Year: 2014
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Małgorzata Kozera - Topińska

Script: Łukasz Bluszcz, Małgorzata Kozera - Topińska

DOP: Jan Budzowski, Maciej Fornal, Michał Pałka

Music: Wojciech Błażejczyk

Editing: Bartosz Pietras

Production company: Vision House

Trailer

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About the director:

Małgorzata Kozera - Topińska

Małgorzata Kozera - Topińska

Born in Warsaw, Poland. Studied Ethnology & Cultural Anthropology at the the Universities of Warsaw and Copenhagen and film directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. She is an author of several short documentaries and fictions, which have been broadly shown at Polish and international film festivals and in Polish National Television TVP SA. Małgorzata has cooperated the acclaimed Polish director Feliks Falk on his film “The Debt Collector” and worked as a director’s assistant in other productions. She has also directed audio recordings and conducted film workshops for disabled youths and for students participating in Polish International Youth Encounters program.

At festivals:

54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)

14th International Film Festival Watch Docs, Poland, 2014 (screening)

7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)