AN ORDINARY COUNTRY

POLISH TITLE: ZWYCZAJNY KRAJ

They were everywhere, though they tried to be invisible. Filming from hiding in restaurants, on the street, in shops. They registered illegal bottling of regulated fuel, lovers meeting in the hotel. They wiretapped phone calls with a man living abroad, during which Poles placed orders for hemorrhoid ointment. They filmed interviews during which, through blackmail, they carried out the process of breaking a detainee to persuade them to cooperate. Another time, they interrogated a woman from whom they required detailed billing of household expenses, including the type of meat and the number of butter cubes used. ‘An Ordinary Country’ is a found footage creative documentary based on film and videotapes recorded by officers of the Polish communist security services in the 1960s through the 1980s. 

GENRE:

documentary

COUNTRY:

Poland

RUNNING TIME:

51'

YEAR:

2020

COLOUR:

colour

DIRECTING:

Tomasz Wolski

SCRIPT:

Tomasz Wolski

EDITOR:

Tomasz Wolski

PRODUCTION:

KIJORA / Anna Gawlita