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ABU HARAZ

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Abu Haraz is a small village in the middle of the desert in North Sudan. The construction of a huge dam on the Nile has interfered with the age-old, natural rhythm of the lives of its residents. The filmmakers have spent several years with them, observing their vain attempts to turn back fate…

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GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
73'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Maciej Drygas
SCRIPT:
Maciej Drygas
DOP:
Andrzej Musiał
EDITOR:
Rafał Listopad
MUSIC:
Paweł Szymański
PRODUCTION:
Drygas Production

Maciej Drygas »

scriptwriter and documentary film director born in 1956 in Łódź. After graduation from the Film Directing Department at Moscow’s VGIK in 1981 he worked with Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieślowski as a director’s assistant. His documentaries include False Start (1981), Psychotherapy (1984), Hear My Cry (1991), State of Weightlessness (1994), Głos nadziei (2002), One Day in People’s Poland (2005). He has won a number of festival awards in, among others, Mumbai, Huston, Tai Pei, Monte Carlo, San Francisco, Nyon and Kraków. Currently he teaches at the Film School in Łódź.
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