VIDEO STUDIO GDAŃSK

We are the first and the longest lasting independent TV producer in Poland.

We started in 1981 during the 1st Meeting of "Solidarity", operating as the first television of the first free trade union in communist Europe at that time. Recording the most important political and social events that made a new shape of the Polish reality and awareness was the main field of our activity, which we have continued incessantly, even at the time of martial law, up to this day. The result of our work connected with "Solidarity" movement is a rich archive collection (see: Archives) including film footage of the latest history of Poland. These materials as well as films and programmes produced at our company has been used by Polish Public TV and foreign TV stations: German ZDF, ARD and WDR, Swiss RTSI, American ABC and NBC, Japanese NHK, Swedish SVT1, BBC and the independent TV stations of the Central-Eastern European countries.

In spite of many political changes that have been taking place in our country we have always been independent on the state monopoly.

The effect of 20 years of our activity as a TV producer is more than 1500 audiovisual programmes: TV reports, educational and promotional films, TV comic programmes and talk-shows, advertising films, musical programmes and videoclips and - last but not least - documentary films , TV theatre performances and feature films. Political situation in Poland and in Europe, society, history, humanistic messages, economic education, national and ethnic minorities in Poland and abroad reflect in our production. We also focus on literature, theatre, music, fine arts and exploring the most inaccessible places in the world. Polish artists and explorers who are famous in the world make up the content of our programmes as well (see: Programmes with the rights to acquire).

Most of our productions have been broadcast by Polish Public TV. We have been the first independent TV producer in Poland the production of which was run on its air in 1990. It was a series called "TV from the underground".

TV audience in Poland watched more than 600 hours of our programmes broadcast by the Polish Public TV and commercial TV stations like TV POLSAT, TVN and CANAL + Poland.

Many of our programmes took part in Polish and international film festivals such as: "SCOOP" in Augers (France), The International Catholic Film Festival in Niepokalanów (Poland), Media Festival in Łódz (Poland), Balticum Film and TV Festival in Bornholm, Film Festival in Leipzig (Germany), Prix Europa competitions, The New York Festival, International and National Short and Documentary Film Festival in Cracow (Poland), Art Film Festival in Bratislava (Slovakia), Religion Today in Trento (Italy) , Muntanya i Aventura in Torello (Spain) where they have been awarded many times. Our roots and traditions reflect in the part of our activity that promotes the Gdańsk region: films like "Gdańsk", "The Kashubians", "The Kashubians Lake District", "There was a city of Gdańsk...", film impressions Gdańsk 997-1997, a documentary series The World of the Baltic Sea , organization of the Polish Feature Films Festival in Gdańsk/Gdynia, Polish Festival of Good Humour (a competition for TV comedies and entertainment programmes), International Film Open Air in Sopot for students of European film schools, animating and producing artistic events and shows of international range on Gdańsk musical nad theatre stages are examples of actions, carrying out our long-term task: to create a cultural centre of the Baltic Sea region in Gdańsk. We would like Gdańsk to become a place of exchanging experiences and ideas among film makers, literary men, journalists, artists, who come from this part of Europe. We would like these meetings bear fruit of creative activity of high artistic value.

We work on the following technical facilities (see: Rental equipment):
- three ENG BETACAM SP sets
- track equipment with PROJIB arm
- two BETACAM SP editing units
- computer editing unit (off-line/on-line) FAST Video Machine
- full lighting equipment
- complete sound equipment
- two TV studios with a dressing room
- transportation.

Video Studio Gdańsk operates as a foundation with the Board of Directors:
General Manager/Creative Director:   Marek Łochwicki
Deputy General Manager :   Waldemar Płocharski
Production Manager:   Joanna Pacana

Video Studio Gdańsk is a member of:
- Polish Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (www.kipa.pl)
- The World Catholic Association for Communication SIGNIS (www.signis.org)
- LUMEN 2000 - the worldwide catholic television network (www.lumen2000.com)

Archive footages

Video Studio Gdańsk collected over 3 000 hours of initial film materials, documentated mainly between 1981 and 1990 in Poland. The footages have been recorded in:
- U-Matic LB and HB system
- BETACAM SP standard

PREDOMINANT CONTENT:
- anti-communist movement
- a rise of "Solidarity" free trade union and its first years of activity
- Martial Law in Poland
- unique pictures of the Polish society and everyday life in Poland
- Lech Walesa and other "Solidarity" leaders
- Polish Round Table proceedings in 1989 ( "communism negotiated collapse")
- The Catholic Church's activity in Poland, supporting anti-communist opposition ( mainly in Gdańsk)
- Pope John Paul II's visits to Poland

LICENCE FEES:
150-700 EURO, depending on:
- a kind of a programme
- a territory
- a kind of exploitation
- duration of a licence

Caution:
Mailing, technical and labour costs are not included in the fee.

For details please call our office.

      PRICE LIST

	item
	I.SHOOTING EQUIPMENT
index	1. Cameras/recorders	rate per day ( in EURO)
I.1.1.	Camera/recorder BETACAM SP DXC-D30 + BVV 5P/ SONY + tripod	130,00
I.1.2.	Camera /recorder BETACAM SP DXC-D30 + PVV 1Ap/ SONY + tripod	130,00
I.1.3.	Camera BETACAM SP DXC-D30 + VTR BVW 50P/ SONY + tripod	130,00
I.1.4.	Camera BVP 7p + adapter CA3 SONY	65,00
I.1.5.	Camera DCX-D30 + adapter CA537/ SONY	65,00
I.1.6.	Camera DCX-D30 + adapter CA 511/ SONY ( for BVW 5)	65,00
I.1.7.	Camera/recorder VIDEO 8 CCD-V 200E / SONY	10,00
I.1.8.	Digital camera DCR-VX 1000E/ SONY	65,00
index	2. Camera accessorries
I.2.1.	Tripod SACHTLER 14/18/20	10,00
I.2.2.	Short tripod SACHTLER DA 100 ("baby")	7,00
I.2.3.	Wheels for tripod SACHTLER	7,00
I.2.4.	Bazooka for dollies	7,00
I.2.5.	Trolly with tracks: 4 curves x 2 m, straights: 4 x 1m, 4 x 2m,	36,00
I.2.6.	Dolly (with pneumatic wheels)	36,00
I.2.7.	Arm PROJIB	60,00
I.2.8.	Filters with compendium	7,00
I.2.9.	Wide angle converter FUJINON for A14	17,00
I.2.10.	Wide angle lens FUJINON A 8.5 x 5.5	35,00
I.2.11.	Remote Control for FUJINON lenses	7,00
I.2.12.	Monitor PVM 9020ME / 9000ME / 9040ME SONY	10,00
I.2.13.	Viewfinder DXF 40 6' for DXC-D30 / SONY	7,00
I.2.14.	Waveform monitor CT 6101	7,00
I.2.15.	"Walkie-talkie" Alniko - 3 units	20,00
I.2.16.	Wire intercom set PORTACAM - 6 units	20,00
I.2.17.	Fog machine	15,00
I.2.18.	Fluid for fog machine (1 liter)	15,00
I.2.19.	Camera VTR Playback Adaptor VA500	10,00
I.2.20.	Cover for camera "POLAR BEAR"	4,00
I.2.21.	Teleprompter AV Design	65,00
index	3. Lighting equipment
I.3.1.	3 units kit DEDOLIGHT	65,00
I.3.2.	Fluorescent light KINOFLO type (3 pcs)	35,00
I.3.3.	3 units kit SACHTLER / "red head"	20,00
I.3.4.	3 units kit ARRI	27,00
I.3.5.	HMI 200 W (2 pcs)	20,00
I.3.6.	HMI 575 W (4 pcs)	27,00
I.3.7.	HMI 1 200 W (3 pcs)	35,00
I.3.8.	HMI 2 500 W "Kobold" (2 pcs)	50,00
I.3.9.	Portable lamp	7,00
I.3.10.	Floodlight 4 000 W + tripod (4 pcs)	10,00
I.3.11.	Halogen lamp 300 W (1 pc)	10,00
I.3.12	Halogen lamp 500 W (2 pcs)	10,00
I.3.13.	Halogen lamp 1 000 W (6 pcs)	10,00
I.3.14.	Halogen lamp 2 000 W (1 pc)	17,00
I.3.15.	Combustion generator HONDA 4,5 kW ( fuel excl.)	35,00
index	4. Lighting equipment accessorries
I.4.1.	Reflecting screens, blinds	7,00
I.4.2.	Diffusion screen "Chimera" ( 3 pcs)	20,00
I.4.3.	Gelatins	4,00
I.4.4.	Grip	4,00
I.4.5.	Tripods for lamps	4,00
I.4.6.	Spring-loaded supporting bar MANFROTTO	7,00
I.4.7.	Power distributor	7,00
	5. Sound equipment
index	5.1.Microphones
I.5.1.1.	SENNHEISER MKH 416/48 PH	20,00
I.5.1.2.	SENNHEISER ME80 / C74 SONY	7,00
I.5.1.3.	SHURE SM 58 / BETA	7,00
I.5.1.4.	SENNHEIZER MKH416 + windscreen + boom	15,00
I.5.1.5.	Lavalier microphone SENNHEIZER MKE2	10,00
I.5.1.6.	Lavalier microphone AUDIOTECHNICA 831	10,00
I.5.1.7.	Wireless microphone RMS TX/DX 2000U TRAM	35,00
index	5.2.Sound mixers
I.5.2.1.	Audio Development 261	20,00
I.5.2.2.	SHURE FP 32/FP33	17,00
I.5.2.3.	MXP 290 SONY	20,00
index	5.3.Taperecorders
I.5.11.	Cassette recorder TC-D5, SONY	7,00
I.5.12.	Portable DAT PDR 1000 HHB	35,00

index	II. EDITING EQUIPMENT	rate per hour (in EURO)
II.1.	BETACAM SP UNIT(2 VTRs : BVW 70P SONY + BVW 65) SONY +
	+ 2 monitors SONY + sound mixer MXP290 SONY	20,00
II.2.	BETACAM SP unit (3 VTRs: BVW 70P SONY + BVW 65P SONY +
	+ BVW 65P SONY + 3 monitors SONY + editing controller BVE 600 +
	+ video switcher BKE 612 + sound mixer MXP390 SONY)	30,00
II.3.	BETACAM SP unit (3 VTRs:BVW 70P SONY + BVW 65P SONY +
	+ BVW 65P SONY + 3 monitors SONY + editing controller BVE 600 +
	+ video switcher GVG 100 + sound mixer MXP290 SONY	35,00
II.4.	Graphic computer AMIGA 2000 + MAGNI 4005	7,00
II.5.	Graphic computer AMIGA 4000 + Genlock Impact Vision 24	10,00
II.6.	Time Base Corrector FOR"A"	7,00
II.7.	Digital sound processor DPS R7 SONY	7,00
	III. DIGITAL EDITING SYSTEM "VIDEO MACHINE"
index	ON-LINE	40,00
III.1.1.	Video Machine Plus	10,00
III.1.2.	Digital Player/Recorder	10,00
III.1.3.	BETACAM SP Recorder/Player	10,00
III.1.4.	Character generator INSCRIBER	10,00
index	OFF-LINE	20,00
III.2.1.	Video Machine Plus + Digital Player/Recorder	20,00
III.2.2.	Multimedia computer + RT2500 MATROX	10,00

	IV. COMPUTER ANIMATION
index	Units for transferring of animation
IV.1.1.	Camera BVP 7p + BVW 70P	17,00
IV.1.2.	Trasferring of animation ( BETACAM SP-computer / computer-BETACAM SP)	0,20	per frame
index	V. STUDIOES
V.1.	TV studio 64 sq m + dressing room	10,00
V.2.	Sound booth	4,00
V.3.	Newsbooth 45 sq m	7,00
	VI. MULTIPLYING EQUIPMENT
index	1.VTRs
VI.1.1.	BVW 70P BETACAM SP SONY	10,00
VI.1.2.	BVW 65P BETACAM SP SONY	10,00
VI.1.3.	BVW 50P BETACAM SP SONY	10,00
VI.1.4.	BVW 22P BETACAM SP SONY	5,00
VI.1.5.	U-Matic HB SONY PAL	7,00
VI.1.6.	U-Matic LB SONY PAL/SECAM/NTSC	7,00
VI.1.7.	VHS PANASONIC, SONY / SANYO / JVC	1,00
VI.1.8.	Video 8 SONY	1,00
VI.1.9.	DSR 30 DVCam SONY	7,00
index	2.Monitors
VI.2.1.	PVM 144ZQM	1,00
VI.2.2.	PVM 1850 PS	1,00
VI.2.3.	CVM 1371 QE	1,00
VI.2.4.	BARCO CM33	1,00
index	3. Transcoders
VI.3.1.	PAL / SECAM / NTSC CEL	7,00
VI.3.2.	PAL/SECAM	1,00
index	4.Multiplying into VHS
VI.4.1.	Transcoding VHS-VHS NTSC into PAL, PAL into NTSC	4,00
VI.4.2.	BETACAM SP into VHS	10,00
	for every extra copy	1,00
VI.4.3.	BETA na VHS (multiple for 20. copies)	1,00
VI.4.4.	U-Matic LB or U-Matic HB into VHS	7,00
	for every extra copy	1,00
VI.4.5.	U-Matic LB or U-Matic HB into VHS (multiple for 20. copies)	1,00
index	VII. TRANSPORTATION
VII.1.	FIAT Cinquecento 900 (up to 100 km)	40,00	per day
	over 100 km	0,40	per 1. km
VII.2.	Polonez KOMBI ( up to 100 km)	40,00	per day
	over 100 km	0,40	per 1. km
VII.3.	Mercedes MB 100 ( up to 100 km)	50,00	per day
	over 100 km	0,50	per 1. km
VII4.	IVECO ( up to 100 km)	50,00	per day
	over 100 km	0,50	per 1. km
index	VIII. TESTING AND CLEANING OF BETACAM SP TAPES (30', 20',10',5')
VIII.1.	Cleaner Tape Evaluator RTI VT 1100	2,00	per 1 pc
index	IX. OTHERS
IX.1.	Equipment assistance	40,00	per day
IX.2.	Multiplying service	4,00	per hour
IX.3.	Electronic editing	7,00	per hour

index	X.MATERIALS
X.1.	BETACAM SP cassette 05'	22,00	per pc
X.2.	BETACAM SP cassette 10'	24,00	per pc
X.3.	BETACAM SP cassette 20'	27,00	per pc
X.4.	BETACAM SP cassette 30'	30,00	per pc
X.5.	BETACAM SP cassette 60'	47,00	per pc
X.6.	BETACAM SP cassette 90'	57,00	per pc
X.7.	VHS cassette	3,00	per pc
X.8.	DAT cassette	15,00	per pc

CAUTION:
- a shooting day is 10 working hours
- a minimum renting time is 5 working hours ( half of a shooting day)
- prices above are net prices ( excl. 22% VAT)

         Programmes with the rights to acquire.

1. SOLIDARITY (SOLIDARNOŚĆ)
Directed by	: J. M. Meurice
Duration	: 160 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdansk, Point de Jour, 1990
The documentary composed of two parts tells a history of the trade union "Solidarność". Rich collection of archive pictures and interesting narrative created mostly by a remarkable editing make this film an outstanding documental oeuvre about "Solidarność" such as seen by the French filmmakers.

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2. ABOUT US AND BEHALF OF US (O NAS I ZA NAS)
Directed by	: Marian Terlecki
Duration	: 162 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1987
A record of 24 hours of Pope's meetings with people in Gdansk during his pilgrimage to Poland in 1987. The most unforgettable event of that day: the Pope on the bridge of the ship-altar in Gdansk-Zaspa, among the million crowd expressing their emotions so enthusiastically that even the Pope comes "off-the-record" of the Holy Mass to express directly his support and respect to those who faught for dignity , solidarity and freedom.

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3. THE OTHER AUGUST (INNY SIERPIEŃ)
Directed by	: Piotr Bikont, Leszek Dziumowicz
Duration	: 160 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1988
Policy and strategy of the strikes in Gdańsk Shipyard in August 1988, being arranged slowly and tediously, suddenly broken, but appreciated by those who were waiting behind the Shipyard gates.

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4. SOLIDARITY ANTI-APARTHEID (SOLIDARNOŚĆ ANTI-APARTHEID)
Directed by	: Krzysztof Bukowski
Duration	: 75 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1989
A record of the concert that took place on 13 December 1989 in Gdańsk Shipyard Hall.

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5. SOLIDARITY ALIVE (SOLIDARNOŚĆ ŻYJE)
Directed by	: Włodzimierz Resiak
Duration	: 52min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1987
Accounts of people engaged in underground activity during the martial law in Poland, archive footage from 1982-1983 showing emotions of those days in Gdansk. Particular role of the Catholic Church as a refuge. Relations of the most eminent "Solidarity" people - W. Frasyniuk, Z. Bujak, B. Borusewicz.

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6. THE CHRONICLE OF THE 3RD PILGRIMAGE (KRONIKA III PIELGRZYMKI)
Directed by	: Collective direction
Duration	: 104 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1987.
A relation of the Holy Father's visit to Poland in June 1987, meetings in Warsaw, Lublin, Tarnow, Cracow, Szczecin, Gdańsk, Gdynia and Łódź.

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7. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU (JEZU, UFAM TOBIE)
Directed by	: Elżbieta Konderak
Duration	: 37 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1990
A fictionalized story about Sister Faustyna Kowalska, inspired with "The Little Diary" of hers.

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8. POPPIES (MAKI)
Directed by	: Marian Terlecki
Duration	: 21 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk 1987
One day of the young addicts, who speak about themselves with cruel frankness.

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9. RISE (WZLOT)
Directed by	: Marian Terlecki
Duration	: 50 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1988
The play of "The Eight Day Theatre" based on the Osip Mandelstam's poetry.

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10. THE ROUND TABLE TALES (OPOWIEŚCI OKRĄGŁEGO STOŁU)
Directed by	: Leszek Dziumowicz, Piotr Bikont
Duration	: 72 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1990
A humourful report from the Round Table proceedings in Warsaw shows lobbies of the Namiestnikowski Palace, where real human faces of the participants are shown.

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11. BALLAD ABOUT A STRIKE (BALLADA O STRAJKU)
Directed by	: Piotr Bikont, Leszek Dziumowicz
Duration	: 97 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1989
A study for the portrait of "Solidarity" AD 1988 - impatient, young, radical. And Lech Wałęsa on this background, not always feeling comfortably in new circumstances.

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12. THE KIDNAPPED (PORWANI)
Directed by	: Marian Terlecki
Duration	: 40 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1987
A story of the Security Service experimental range before the kidnapping of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. After this film had been broadcasted, the public prosecutor's office resumed the investigation in the case of people kidnapped in Toruń in 1984.

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13. THE CANDIDATE (KANDYDAT)
Directed by	: Marian Terlecki
Duration	: 21 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1981
A record of the first democratic election by Polish citizens born after the World War II - election of a chairman of the free trade union "Solidarity" in 1981. The first TV programme in Poland produced by an independent television.

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14. YESTERDAY-TODAY-TOMORROW (WCZORAJ-DZIŚ-JUTRO)
Directed by	: Krzysztof Żurowski
Duration	: 60 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
Film about the Catholic Church status in Grodno district, Belorus, when catechization was forbidden, and nowadays, after the act on liberty of religion was introduced.

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15. THE ROAD (DROGA)
Directed by	: Paweł Woldan
Duration	: 52 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
1991 - the fourth Pope John Paul II's visit to homeland. The Wolrd Youth's Day , a meeting for the whole world in Jasna Góra, Częstochowa, Poland. There is a quite numerous group of young people from Russia. It is just their wandering, the experience of meeting with Pope and the mood of extraordinary prayers, joy and change of hearts that this film is dedicated to.

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16. MISSIONARRIES OF LOVE (MISJONARKI MIŁOŚCI)
Directed by	: Jadwiga Zajicek, Irena Kamieńska
Duration	: 30 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1990.
A film telling about the activity of nuns in Warsaw who are brought together near Mother Therese from Calcutta. A picture of their work and prayer and fulfilling their mission: helping those who need care and support.

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17. THE CHURCHES' LEVY EN MASSE (POSPOLITE RUSZENIE KOŚCIOŁÓW)
Directed by	: Michał Góral
Duration	: 43 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1988
Film on the contemporary sacred architecture in Poland - churches of Wladyslawowo, Nowa Huta, Gdańsk, Warsaw.

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18. WAŁĘSA THE PRESIDENT (WAŁĘSA-PREZYDENT)
Directed by	: Ireneusz Engler
Duration	: 75 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
Twelve faces - images of the president, showing different aspects of the first year of Lech Walesa term. Political and sociological threads, interestingly mixed with anecdotic incidents and vivid, impossible to describe, informal actions of the president.

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19. THE SEVERED LIFE OF FATHER ALEXANDER MIEŃ (PRZERWANE ŻYCIE OJCA ALEKSANDRA MIENIA)
Directed by	: Iwona Bartólewska
Duration	: 32 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
A film about a well-known priest of the Orthodox Church in Russia, Father Alexander Mień, who was murdered in 1990 by the former Soviet Security Service (KGB). The film portrait of an extraordinary personality, an active teacher of religion, an animator of intelectual life in Russia, enetring into a dialogue with all the people of the Soviet society in the name of evangelical love for every man, regardless of their views. In this background the film also asks questions concerning the former Soviet Union.

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20.THE SOLOVKIS - THE PROMISED LAND, THE SCORNED LAND (SOŁOWKI - ZIEMIA OBIECANA, ZIEMIA PRZEKLĘTA)
Directed by	: Iwona Bartólewska
Duration	: 47 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
The Solovkis - islands on the White Sea, have been a miniature of the history of Russia from the dictatorship of tsars, through times of the Soviet government up to now. It reaches 1429, when the first monks stepped on this land and gave it back to God. In 1991 the monastery on the Solovkis was opened again, among the remnants of previous Soviet concentration camps ("lagers"), ancient monuments from Middle Ages, like orthodox churches, the fortress and the evidences of economic power pf those times: channels, dams, docks etc. But the people who live here now are sad, poor and scared, do not know any other world. Are the historical monuments the pieces of architecture only, House of God or a "lager"? Nobody is able to answer this question today in Russia.

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21. THE BLESSED QUEEN JADWIGA (BŁOGOSŁAWIONA KRÓLOWA JADWIGA)
Directed by	: Szymon Mirer
Duration	: 95 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1988
Comprehensive and interesting lecture on Queen Jadwiga, her legend and cult.

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22. TO RECALL THE PARADISE (PRZYPOMNIEĆ SOBIE RAJ)
Directed by	: Michał Góral
Duration	: 32 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1988
Film showing the excellent artistic output of celebrated painter Professor Jerzy Nowosielski.

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23. THE CEMETERY IN MONTMORENCY (CMENTARZ W MONTMORENCY)
Directed by	: Mieczysław B.Vogt
Duration	: 9 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdansk, 1991
Picture of the Polish cemetery in Montmorency (France).

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24. MEETING FRANZ JOSEPH LAND (SPOTKANIE Z ZIEMIĄ FRANCISZKA JÓZEFA)
Directed by	: Iwona Bartólewska
Duration	: 38 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
A part of the Arctica that belongs to Russia today was hermetically closed until the former Soviet Union collapsed. The film shows the first time when the explorers from Norway, Austria and Poland met explorers from the previous USSR on this land in 1991. Carl Lothringer von Habsburg, the first descendant of the Great Emperor, joined the expedition. His trip to Franz Joseph Land was following the Austro-Hungarian group of explorers that had discovered this land in 1873. Our crew finds traces of F. Nansen and the remnants of former Soviet meteo-station , searches for walruses and for explanations of the Arctic riddles.

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25. THE TRACE ON ICE (ŚLAD NA LODZIE)
Directed by	: Iwona Bartólewska
Duration	: 30 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
A film about changes of the climate near the Barents' Sea, occuring throughout 100 years. The increasing temperatures carry death or life for various organisms, living there. A picture of how natural environment might be damaged by civilisation

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26. THE ARCTIC POLONICA (POLONICA ARKTYCZNE)
Directed by	: Iwona Bartólewska
Duration	: 28 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
A story about the Polish contribution to the scientific research in Arctic.

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27. SEVEN DIMENSIONS (SIEDEM PRZESTRZENI)
Directed by	: Helena Włodarczyk
Duration	: 27 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
A record of an exhibition that took place in the "Zachęta" gallery in Warsaw, Poland in 1991. The most famous Polish artists' pieces of art, trying to determine the most essential fields for the spiritual human life. Experiences of former generations, variety of cultures and religions reflected in this exhibition.

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28. A REFUGE FOR THE MAJORITY (AZYL DLA WIĘKSZOŚCI)
Directed by	: Olaf Olszewski
Duration	: 37 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1989.
A record of several cultural events from the field of independent art -from the Congress of Polish Culture (12-13 December 1981) to the Independent Forum of Culture (1 April 1989).

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29. LESZEK MĄDZIK'S VISUAL STAGE (SCENA PLASTYCZNA LESZKA MĄDZIKA)
Directed by	: Barbara Gorgol
Duration	: 57 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
The first full-length film dedicated to an extraordinary theatre of the Catholic University of Lublin, creating the world by means of light, music, non-conventional artistic forms (a dummy, a mask, an effigy) without using the words, without the traditional part of an actor.

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30. WHY POLAND? (DLACZEGO POLSKA?)
Directed by	: Zbigniew Hałatek
Duration	: 30 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
A story about the French family stay in Poland and their work on film about this country.

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31. FIGHT BLOOD (KREW WALKI)
Directed by	: Jerzy Bogucki
Duration	: 20 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
An exemplification of conflicts between the youth subcultures.

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32. BOGDAN AND OTHERS (BOGDAN I INNI)
Directed by	: Krzysztof Tchórzewski
Duration	: 30 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991
A film portrait of Bogdan Borusewicz, the legend of "Solidarity".

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33. THE CURTAINS (OSTATKI)
Directed by	: Andrzej Fidyk
Duration	: 45 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1990.
A film report from the Congress Hall in Warsaw, its lobby and vicinity. The plot is based on the infamous end of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), narrated in a way that is more suggestive and more real than any other earlier reports, commentarries or summarries abundant in mass-media. Portrait briefs, local scenery and the statements by the participants as well as the "fans" in the background, and the demonstrators in front of the Palace of Culture - all this make up a mosaic combination. Consequently, the film creates a picture of the real face of the Party Congress, of the Party itself as it steps off the record while changing its label and its forty years of activity.

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34. CHILDREN OF THE MARTIAL LAW (DZIECI STANU WOJENNEGO)
Directed by	: Jerzy Afanasjew jr.
Duration	: 30 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
Memories of people involved with "Solidarity" activities, who were children during the martial law in Poland.

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35. FATHER JERZY (KSIĄDZ JERZY)
Directed by	: Marian Terlecki
Duration	: 60 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1985.
A story about Father Jerzy Popieluszko - fragments of his sermons, meetings with friends, taking him into custody and death at hands of the Security Service officers. Grand Prix at the International Festival "SCOOP" in Angers (France) in 1988. First Prize at the Niepokalanow Festival in 1987.

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36. THE WAY OF CONTEMPLATION (DROGA KONTEMPLACJI)
Directed by	: Marian Terlecki
Duration	: 57 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1988.
The film illustrates the every day life of monks, with an impact on presenting religious practices of individual cloisters ( i.e. Gregorian chants in Tyniec and on the other hand a closer look at specificity of hermit life in camadolite cloister in Bielany, both in Poland). Series of conversations with monks about their calling, existence experience, their world and the way they perceive the world from a monastery. The main medium of expression in the film is an image. It is composed by liturgy, architecture, sacred art and prayer.

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37. FORDON
Directed by	: Stefan Chazbijewicz
Duration	: 29 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
Film about women - political prisoners in the years 1945-56, when hundreds of innocent women were sentenced and imprisoned in the hardest conditions in the prison of Fordon near Bydgoszcz, Poland.

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38. SENIOR
Directed by	: Ireneusz Engler
Duration	: 57 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
A film portrait of Professor Stanisław Stomma, the lawyer, publicist, politician, a great moral authority, a senior of Polish parliament. The only one who has not voted for introducing records about alliance with the former USSR and about the leading role of PZPR (Polish United Workers' Party) into the Polish Constitution.

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39. THE WIZARD FROM SOPOT (MAG Z SOPOTU)
Directed by	: Krzysztof Miklaszewski
Duration	: 53 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk 1992, broadcasted by TVP, 1992.
Film about Jerzy Afanasjew, a legend of "The Bim-bom Theatre", a creator of "The Afanasjew Family Circus", writer, film and theatre director, one of the most colourful artistic personalities of his time.

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40. KISIEL
Directed by	: Marian Terlecki
Duration	: 45 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1988.
A portrait of Stefan Kisielewski - the authority for the postwar generations in Poland, the one who had courage to say that communism was a crime and a mistake.

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41. HE SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN - KAZIMIERZ BRANDYS, PARIS 1991 (NIE BĘDZIE ZAPOMNIANY - KAZIMIERZ BRANDYS, PARYŻ 1991)
Directed by	: Mieczysław B. Vogt
Duration	: 77 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk,1991.
A film portrait of a Polish writer Kazimierz Brandys, living in exile, showing his artistic and ideological evolution, enriched with fragments of films based on his novels and stories.

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42. GDAŃSK
Directed by	: Jacek Sarnacki
Duration	: 30 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
Pieces of history and the present day of the one-thousand-year city of Fahrenheit , the city that has been fascinated many people with its beauty and the unique atmosphere.

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43. THE KAHUBIANS (KASZUBI)
Directed by	: Ludmiła Niedbalska
Duration	: 57 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1990.
Complicated lots of the Kashubians - an ethnic minority in Pomerania, Poland. Their customs, traditions that combine elemnts of other cultures, symbols and individual features , resulting in their specific life at the seaside.

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44. TO BE IN THE MIDST OF PEOPLE (BYĆ WŚRÓD LUDZI)
Directed by	: Lech Kujawski
Duration	: 35 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1991.
Film about disabled people, picturing them at the background of social life.

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45. ŻENIA PRIWIEZENCEW OR THE INTERVIEW WITH MYSELF (ŻENIA PRIWIEZENCEW CZYLI WYWIAD Z SAMYM SOBĄ)
Directed by	: Zbigniew Hałatek
Duration	: 27 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1992.
An intimate tale of the popular Polish actor Żenia Priwiezencew, showing many details from his youth and his way to film, supplemented by his friends' stories.

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46. POLAND '89 (POLSKA '89)
Directed by	: Ireneusz Engler
Duration	: 57 min. (part 1) and 48 min. (part 2)
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1990.
The year of the Round Table proceedings, the first free parliamental election, the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Would people, tired with many years of crisis, take the opportunity of a market economy, would they believe once again the economists and politicians? - ask the authors of the film.

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47. THE RETURN (POWRÓT)
Directed by	: Krzysztof Grabowski
Duration	: 33 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1996.
Born and living in captivity rhinoceros is being transported from Safari Park in Germany to ecological reserve in Etosha, Namibia, to be released. The report shows preparations, transportation and adpatation of the rhino to the new, but still natural living conditions. It has been an unexpected event that stired up biologists and nature scientists from all the world. The crew was accompanying all the operation in the second half of September, 1996.

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48. THE WORLD OF THE BALTIC SEA (ŚWIAT BAŁTYKU)
Directed by	: Jacek Sarnacki
Duration	: 6 parts.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1997.
The documentary series about history and evolution of the Baltic Sea, describing human activity in its context. The film explains the rules of natural environment functioning, and shows danger brought by civilization of the 21st century.

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49. THE LEADER (LIDER)
Directed by	: Andrzej Trzos- Rastawiecki
Duration	: 82 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1990
A film about Lech Wałęsa : form the beginning of his political path in 1970, throughout underground activity, a strike in Gdańsk Shipyard in 1980, setting up "Solidarity", his imprisonment during the martial law, until 1989 - the turning point in the history of Poland. Lech Wałęsa - an ordinary worker, who led Poland to liberation from the communist regime, who did never doubt success.

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50. STUTTHOF
Directed by	: Jerzy Gębacki
Duration	: 60 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1994.
The first feature-length documentary about the concentration camp in Stutthof.

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51. TWO POLES IN ONE YEAR - THE ARTICA (DWA BIEGUNY W JEDNYM ROKU - ARCTICA)
Directed by	: Jerzy Surdel
Duration	: 55 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1995.
A documentary record of the first expedition to the North Pole without eternal support. This succes belongs to two Polish polarists: Mare Kamiński and Wojtek Moskal from Gdańsk.

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52. TWO POLES IN ONE YEAR - THE ANTARCTICA (DWA BIEGUNY W JEDNYM ROKU - ANTARCTICA)
Directed by	: Jerzy Surdel
Duration	: 56 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1996.
A documentary about the Polish polarist, Marek Kamiński's expedition to the South Pole in 1995/1996. He has been the first man in the world who reached two Poles in one year. The film makes the viewer understand the sense of an effort and risks that extreme weather conditions carry with themselves: temperatures below minus 50 centogrades, heavy gales, carvases, cracks etc. The pivot is a Marek's report, based on his diary, written during the expedition.

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53. ... AND THE TANK HAS DRIVEN IN (...I WJECHAŁ CZOŁG)
Directed by	: Iwona Bartólewska
Duration	: 42 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1996.
The documentary about a tragedy, that took place in 1962 in Szczecin, Poland. During the parade of the Warsaw Pact troops more than a dozen of people watching this show of "communistic power" was killed or injured by a tank.

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54. WHOLEHEARTED - STORY OF TERESA STRZEMBOSZ (DAR SERCA - RZECZ O TERESIE STRZEMBOSZ)
Directed by	: Bożena Garus-Hackuba
Duration	: 22 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1995.
The film story of charity by Teresa Strzembosz.

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55. THE PARTY, MONEY, ROCK&ROLL (PARTIA, PIENIĄDZE, ROCK&ROLL)
Directed by	: Paweł Chmielewski
Duration	: 46 min. (part 1), 47 min. (part 2), 49 min. (part 3)
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1997.
History of Polish rock and roll in three decades: the 60., the 70. and the 80.

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56. A SHORT STORY OF THE GREAT OVEN (KRÓTKA HISTORIA WIELKIEGO PIECA)
Directed by	: Aleksander Gosk
Duration	: 20 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1996.
History of the Great Oven in the Arthur's Court in Gdańsk, an object of admiration of all Europe, that depicts political and religious preferences of people in 16th century Gdansk.

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57. THE SIBERIA STATION (PRZYSTANEK SYBERIA)
Directed by	: Ryszard Bongowski, Wojciech Ostrowski
Duration	: 26 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1998.
A television report of the first humanitarian aid convoy to Siberia. Shows the Polish people living in Siberia, their bonds with homeland, their national identity and life conditions.

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58. ... AND DON'T REGRET THAT (...I NIE ŻAŁUJ TEGO)
Directed by	: Paweł Chmielewski
Duration	: 54 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk , 1995.
A biographical documentary about the "godfather" of Polish rock and roll - Franciszek Walicki, the author of hits sung by Niemen, Korda, Breakout, SBB.

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59. MAREK KAREWICZ'S GALLERY (GALERIA MARKA KAREWICZA)
Directed by	: Paweł Chmielewski
Duration	: 10 parts of 9 min. each.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk , 1999.
A television programme - memories of a popular Polish photographer and jazzman Marek Karewicz who mentions events and music personalities of Poland in the 50., 60., 70., 80. and 90., like Leopold Tyrmand, Tadeusz and Piotr Nalepa, Rolling Stones, Karol Wargin, Zofia Komeda-Trzcińska.

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60. HOLY MOTHER KINGA (ŚWIĘTA MATKA KINGA)
Directed by	: Piotr Zarębski
Duration	: 45min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk , 1999.
The documentary presents a unique personality of St. Kinga, a Hungarian princess, who devoted her life and all her estate and property to God and to the Land of Nowy and Stary Sącz (Poland). The film describes places where she is adored up to now: Sandomierz, Cracow, Wieliczka, Bochnia regions ( where she is supposed to discover deposits of salt) in Poland, Budapest and Esztergom in Hungary, Velehrad in the Czech Republic, and - last but not least - Stary Sącz, where she gave funds for establishing a St. Claire Order, working successfully nowadays. It was there, inside the cloister, where the religious treasures unrevealed to the people were filmed. The climax of the film is a canonization of Kinga by John Paul II during his last pilgrimage to Poland in 1999.

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61. OBSESSION (OBSESJA)
Directed by	: Yach Paszkiewicz
Duration	: 28 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 2000.
A story of OBSESJA, the Gdansk group that has palyed the Beatles songs for several years. In 1999 OBSESJA as the only Polish band qualified to the International Beatle Week, that takes place in Liverpool every year. The film includes a relation of their visit to England.

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62. TO COME BACK TO KONGUR SHAN (WRÓCIĆ POD KONGUR SHAN)
Directed by	: Michał Kochańczyk
Duration	: 28 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 2000.
A report from the expedition of the Gdańsk Alpine Club "Trójmiasto" to the highest peak in the Chinese Pamirs - Kongur Shan.

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63. PRINCE METROPOLITAN. FACTS ABOUT CARDINAL SAPIEHA (KSIĄŻĘ METROPOLITA. Rzecz o kardynale Sapieże)
Directed by	: Mieczysław B. Vogt
Duration	: 48min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 2000.
The documentary presents a Prince Cardinal Adam Sapieha's personality phenomenon, his activity and the impact he made on history of Poland and on Pope John Paul II's formation. Sapieha alone ( 1867-1951) was mentally formed by patriotic family tradition and faithfulness to catholic religion combined with the Pope Pius VI's influence, which was Sapieha's personal experience at the time of his several years' stay in Vatican. His dedication and cleverness is described in the film by people who witnessed Sapieha's unusual life and work, especially during the 2nd World War.

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64. THE BANDITS. STORIES OF CURSED SOLDIERS (BANDYCI. HISTORIE ŻOŁNIERZY WYKLĘTYCH)
Directed by	: Lech Mackiewicz, Piotr Martin
Duration	: 50 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 2000.
A documentary, telling true stories of soldiers from the Polish NSZ (Independent Armed Forces) at the end and after the World War II.

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65. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SADDAM (DAJĘ CI WODĘ ŻYCIA)
Directed by	: Krzysztof Kalukin
Duration	: 33 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk , 2001.
April 28th, is a special day for Iraqui people - Saddam Hussein celebrates his birthday. Citizens of Tikrit, where he was born, may personally support him and shout their love and dedication. Most of TV agencies inform about this even only in short. A spontaneous behaviour of Hussein's believers, shown by TV reporters in long shots, seem to be manipulated by Saddam's "TV-directors". The film presents only some of many events organized in connection with Hussein's birthday. It also shows an average Iraqui family, their everyday life which has been extremely difficult after economic sanctions were imposed on Iraq . Will their voices, shouting during the celebration reach the dictator? Does he want to listen to this national confession? Won't the game he plays with those who regard democracy as the greatest value , cause next terrorism attacks in the world and - consequently - the end of his country, a unique place where thousands years ago our civilisation was formed?

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66. THE DISCIPLES OF AD-DARAZI (UCZNIOWIE AD-DARAZIEGO)
Directed by	: Joanna Cichocka-Gula
Duration	: 19 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1999.
A report on one of the most mysterious communities living in Israel. The Druses are unlike the other Arabs. They have full public rights, they serve in the Israeli army. They are brave, because they are not afraid of death. To die means for a Druse just another experience; the beginning, not the end.

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67. ULPAN AKIVA
Directed by	: Joanna Cichocka-Gula
Duration	: 19 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk, 1999.
There are several Ulpans ( schools of the Hebrew language) in Israel. Ulpan Akiva is the oldest and the most famous one , as the Judes, Christians and Arabs from the whole world are taught there. Shulamid Kacnelson, a founder of Ulpan Akiva won the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting an idea of reconciliation by teaching languages. Two women attending lessons at Ulpan Akiva , tell how the school works. One of them is an American Jude, the other - the Ukrainian Christian. Both of them left their countries and emigarted to Israel.

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68. NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM (W PRZYSZŁYM ROKU W JEROZOLIMIE)
Directed by	: Joanna Strzemieczna-Wielczyk
Duration	: 33 min.
Production	: Video Studio Gdańsk , 1999.
Moshe Landau, the 90-year-old hero of this story, was one of the three judges, the president to the bench in the Eichmann's trial. He was born and grown up in Gdansk. His father, Isaac Landau, was a very important person in the Jewish community of the Free City of Gdansk before the 2nd World War: a doctor, journalist, editor in chief of Das Judische Volk, devoted Zionist, chairman of the sport association Bar Kochba. Emigrated from Gdansk in 1933, settled in Palestine. Moshe Landau went then to England for legal studies, then came back to Palestine, became the judge of the Supreme Court. Presently lives in Jerusalem.

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