Poles Poles
A portrait of a portraitist.
- Documentary
Overview
For decades the photographer Krzysztof Gierłatowski has portrayed eminent Polish figures, thus creating an invaluable visual testimony. This time his ""victims"" are well-known citizens of Kraków: Stanisław Lem, one of the most brilliant, versatile, and unapologetically cerebral science fiction writers, author of 'Solaris'; Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the most esteemed and widely discussed Polish composers of the 20th century; and Wisława Szymborska, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1996, one of the few women poets who has received the Swedish prize. Gierłatowski assumes the role of a modern Stańczyk, a legendary thinker-jester, prophesying on the historical Polish Republic in his dramatic conviction that History annihilated the intellectual elite of his nation and the future will bring awe and destruction.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 28, 2003
- Original language
- Polish
- Spoken languages
- Polish
- Countries
- Poland
- Production
- TVP
- Director
- Borys Lankosz
- Producer
- Barbara Biel
- Cinematography
- Marcin Koszałka
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0420078