Montażowe formy Wacława Kaźmierczaka
The Montage Forms of Wacław Kaźmierczak

Summary/Abstract: Wacław Kaźmierczak (1905-1981) is one of the leading Pol-ish editors of documentary cinema. Having gained film ex-perience before the war and by documenting the WarsawUprising (1944), after World War II he co-created the mostimportant productions of the Documentary Film Studioin Warsaw and educated many successors. In his work,he preferred a laconic style and metaphorical montageconnections; he knew how to catch and hold the viewer’sattention. His style has evolved from persuasive politicalmessages to cross-sectional historical syntheses, createdusing archival materials, of which the feature-length doc-umentary Requiem dla 500 tysięcy [Requiem for 500 000](1963) is an outstanding example. As an editor, he was distinguished by his in-depth knowledge of historical formsof film narration, characteristically expressed in the PolishFilm Chronicle, which he edited for almost 40 years. The author discusses the evolution of Kaźmierczak’s style and presents his most characteristic works.

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