Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.
Direction
Krauze's documentary precision meets nightmare logic.
Cinematography
Bleached-grim palette of communist concrete and blood.
Acting
Honzatko carries grief like a second skeleton.
Director
Antoni Krauze
Marta Honzatko
Stefania Drywa
Michał Kowalski
Brunon Drywa
Marta Jankowska
Irena Drywa
Cezary Rybiński
Leon Drywa
Wojciech Pszoniak
Władysław Gomułka
Piotr Fronczewski
Zenon Kliszko
Wojciech Tremiszewski
Mr. Bolek
Witold Dębicki
Mieczysław Moczar
Piotr Garlicki
Józef Cyrankiewicz
Sławomir Orzechowski
Stefan Olszowski
Jacek Kałucki
Marian Spychalski
Andrzej Dębski
Józef Tejchma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1970 Gdynia massacre was officially denied until 1981; this film helped break Poland's communist silence.
Extras included actual shipyard workers whose fathers were killed in the real events.
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