THE INDEPENDENT

POLISH TITLE: NIEZALEŻNI

A story about the way of thinking and attitudes of young people who were students in the years 1974-1989, which led to such initiatives as the Student Solidarity Committee, the Independent Student Association, the Freedom and Peace Movement, Orange Alternative, the New Culture Movement, The Gallery of Manic Activities. Their creators laid the foundations for attitudes of today’s intelligentsia. Most of them operated illegally and independently, although, e.g. members of the Independent Student Association, had a short legal
‘carnival’, just like the Solidarity movement.

GENRE:
documentary
RUNNING TIME:
51'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Jacek Talczewski
DOP:
Józef Romasz
EDITOR:
Jacek Talczewski
PRODUCTION:
Agencja Filmowa TVP, Tomasz Kronenberg

Jacek Talczewski »

a graduate of physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Philosophy (1979) and philosophy at the Faculty of History and Physics (1980) of the University of Lodz and the Faculty of Directing at the Lodz Film School (1986). He cooperates with the Lodz Film School, the Educational Film Studio in Lodz, the Karol Irzykowski Film Studio in Warsaw and the Polsat TV station. The author of documentaries: Doświadczenie (1982), Poza czasem (1984), Prom (1985), Homo Write Your Name (1986), Sposób na życie (1987), America Blues (1988), Ryszard Kapuściński (1989), Staszek (1994), Pora! (2005) and Students 81 (2006).
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