MODERN PENTATHLON

POLISH TITLE: PIĘCIOBÓJ NOWOCZESNY

In his first film about sports Dziworski presented Janusz Pyciak-Peciak before the sportsman became the world and Olympic champion. But Modern Pentathlon is, above all, a little treaty about the physical endurance of man. The impression is that the characters are in some kind of trans: they sweat their guts out during training, take part in gruelling competitions, fight until they arrive at the point of complete exhaustion, and then go back to the monotonous routine of exercise.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
8'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Bogdan Dziworski
SCRIPT:
Bogdan Dziworski
DOP:
Bogdan Dziworski, Ryszard Lenczewski
EDITOR:
Anna Nawrocka
MUSIC:
Eugeniusz Rudnik
PRODUCTION:
Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych

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.