SELF-PORTRAIT

POLISH TITLE: AUTOPORTRET

A story of the businessman - Longin Frankowski, a nationalist, whose business was to remove rubbish out of the city of Warsaw. He started it after 1989, then went bankrupt. He tries to blame national minorities for his failure. 

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
9'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Marcel Łoziński
SCRIPT:
Marcel Łoziński
DOP:
Jacek Petrycki, Andrzej Adamczak
EDITOR:
Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk, Waldemar Makuła
PRODUCTION:
Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop

Marcel Łoziński »

Born in 1940 in Paris. He earned his degree in Film Directing from Łódź Film School. He has made a number of excellent documentaries, which include The Visit (1974), Front Collision (1975), How to Live (1977), Microphone’s Test (1980), Practice Exercises (1984), Anything Can Happen (1995), So It Doesn’t Hurt (1998), How It’s Done (2006) and was nominated to the European Academy Award and American Oscar for his documentary film entitled 89 mm from Europe (1993). For the past four years he has been the head of the documentary programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.