FROM A NIGHT PORTER'S POINT OF VIEW

POLISH TITLE: Z PUNKTU WIDZENIA NOCNEGO PORTIERA

The portrait of a factory porter, a fanatic of strict discipline, who extends his power even into his personal life as he tries to control everybody and everything in the belief that rules are more important than people. “That means,” he says, “that when a man doesn’t obey the rules, you could say he’s a goner. Children also have to conform to the rules and adults who live on this earth, for whom this beautiful world has been created. I reckon you’ve got to have capital punishment. Simply hang them [the culprits]. Publicly. Dozens, hundreds of people would see it.’

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
17'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Krzysztof Kieślowski
DOP:
Witold Stok
EDITOR:
Lidia Zonn
MUSIC:
Wojciech Jagiełło, Wojciech Kilar
PRODUCTION:
WFDiF (Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych)