A BALLAD ABOUT SAŁAPATEK

POLISH TITLE: BALLADA O SAŁAPATKU

The inhabitants of the BeskidyMountains tell a legend about Jan Sałapatek, the last soldier of „the armed underground” resistance forces who pressed the Security Service hard until the late fifties. They present different, very often contradictory, accounts of the wonderful exploits of the "new Janosik". The film reveals a mechanism how a folk legend is created. Its force lies not in the faithfulness to facts, but in the vividness of the account.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
26'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Jakub Skoczeń
SCRIPT:
Jakub Skoczeń
DOP:
Andrzej Szulkowski
EDITOR:
Cezary Kowalczuk
PRODUCTION:
Studio Filmowe Everest