Czerwiec 1956 wiosną 1981. Poznań 1956 (1981) Tadeusza Litowczenki i Mirosława Kwiecińskiego
June 1956 in spring of 1981. Poznań 1956 (1981) by Tadeusz Litowczenko and Mirosław Kwieciński
Author(s): Mikołaj JazdonSubject(s): Media studies, Photography, Local History / Microhistory, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Communism, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne
Keywords: Poznań June 1956; Polish documentary film; history of television; archive photographs; censorship; Solidarity movement; Stalinism;
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the making of the first documentary film depicting the traumatic events of the anticommunist uprising in Poznań in June 1956 as well as the difficult fate of the documentary after it had been completed. Its authors, Tadeusz Litowczenko and Mirosław Kwieciński, composed their Poznań 1956 (1981) of two interwoven narrative lines. Archive photographs with off screen commentary make the first narrative line while cinéma-vérité-like interviews with the participants of historical events make the other. The film analysis is aimed to underline the formal means employed in the film to present the opposing sites of the conflict. It also focuses on the historical context from the times when film was being made in the so called ‘festival of Solidarity movement’ in the early 1980s.
Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 29
- Page Range: 129-146
- Page Count: 21
- Language: Polish