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HANOI-WARSAW
HANOI-WARSAW
dir. Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
scenariusz: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
produced in:2009
running time:28’
cinematography: Andrzej Wojciechowski
editing: Andrzej Dąbrowski
production: Kino Polska TV
music: Marzena Majcher
A young Vietnamese girl comes to Poland through the green border. She has to get to Warsaw where her fiancé and a better life are waiting for her... A journey through Poland is the hell of humiliation and violence. The girl escapes her brutal carriers and penniless, not knowing the language she tries to get to Warsaw. Yet her fiancé is locked up in a deportation arrest. Lonely and desperate, Ahn has to decide – to report herself to the police and risk the deportation or to fight for survival... FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Born in 1977. She graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish National School of Film, Television and Theater in Łódź. Her documentary Wasserschlacht – The Great Border Battle, produced with Andrew Friedman, received the Berlin Today Award at the 2007 Berlinale. Her documentary works include Krystian Lupa’s Labyrinth (2003) and Nothing to Lose (2009).
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