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THE PRISONER

POLISH TITLE: WIĘZIEŃ

After a few years Dziworski goes back with his camera to the protagonist of A Few Stories About Man. Jerzy Orłowski is shown in the prison cell, serving his sentence for theft, and after he is released. Much has changed around him but he has remained unchanged with his impressive fitness, courage and passion for drawing. The film was made for the BBC series 40 Minutes and is the first documentary without any off-screen commentary in the history of the British corporation.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
40'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Bogdan Dziworski
SCRIPT:
Bogdan Dziworski, Wit Dąbal
DOP:
Wit Dąbal
EDITOR:
Agnieszka Bojanowska
MUSIC:
Henryk Kuźniak
PRODUCTION:
ASA Film

Bogdan Dziworski »

Documentary film director, cinematographer, photographer and university teacher born in 1941 in Lodz. A graduate of Lodz Film School (1965). An Ordinary Professor of Film and Photography and the Dean of the Radio and Television Department of the Silesia University in Katowice. He has received a number of prestigious awards for his excellent documentary films, which focus primarily on arts or sports and include "Krzyz i Topor", "Hokej", "Olimpiada", "Kilka opowiesci o czlowieku" at festivals in Bilbao, Brussels, Leipzig, Marseilles, Oberhausen, San Sebastian and Krakow, among others.