Edge of Light
Poland2021documentary73'Konkurs polski (2022)
The protagonist of Wojciech Szumowski’s film is Bogusław Popiela - a Polish white-water canoeist, four-time World Championship medallist, two-time European Champion. On this occasion, he plays a completely different role – the one of an activist restoring the memory of neglected Jewish cemeteries. The measure of success and meaning of Popiela’s actions is each recovered name and restored tombstone. The protagonist is captured wandering around necropolises of southern Poland. Individual stories make up a bigger project, ‘People, not numbers’, in which Holocaust victims are commemorated by name in cemeteries.
- directed by
- Wojciech Szumowski
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Director, documentary filmmaker and producer born in 1961 in Bielsko-Biała. He earned his film directing degree from the Film School in Łódź. He is an author of several dozen films and documentary series broadcast by Polish television stations as well as a two-time winner of Grand Press in the category of television reportage (for The Survivors and The Price of Syrian Dreams).
- cinematography
- Maciej Dźwigaj, Wojciech Szumowski, Maciej Mroziewski, Wojciech Łuczak
- script
- Wojciech Szumowski
- protagonists
- Dariusz Popiela
- music
- Ola Bilińska, Katarzyna Kolbowska, Edyta Czerniewicz, Michał Moniuszko, Kacper Szroeder, Mikołaj Trzaska, Raphael Rogiński, Rodzinna Kapela Czechów
- sound
- Wojciech Szumowski, Maciej Dźwigaj
- editing
- Tadeusz Talar
- production
- Aleksander Kardyś (Fundacja Tygodnika Powszechnego)
- Photo
