Movie The Big Chef
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FilmThe Big Chef
Poland, France, The Netherlands2025documentary88'He worked for the Soviet wartime intelligence in occupied Europe, then spent 10 years in a Stalinist prison. Before that, when captured by the Gestapo, he had pretended to collaborate and had to explain himself for it for the rest of his life. Employing archival footage in a creative way, the film reveals the remarkable biography of a Polish Jew, a victim of the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968 in Poland, who was subject to surveillance and house arrest. Who actually was Leopold Trepper? He is portrayed as a man who, for many years, fought for his ideals, good name and the right to freedom.
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Tomasz WolskiFilm director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. He was born in 1977. He is a graduate of Journalism at the Jagiellonian University and of a documentary course from the Wajda School. He has taken part in the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Berlin Today Award. He has made several documentaries, which include The Clinic (2006), "The Lucky Ones" (2009), "Doctors" (2011), "The Palace" (2012), "Not for Everyone" (2012), "Festival" (2017) and "An Ordinary Country" (2020, the winner of the Golden Hobby Horse at the 60KFF). As a editor he has worked with Sergei Loznitsa on his documentaries "Babi Yar. Context" and "The Kiev Trial". He is a co-director (with Piotr Pawlus) of "In Ukraine" which premiered at Berlinale in 2023. A member of the Polish Filmmakers Association, Polish and European Film Academies, and since 2024, a member of the Council of the Polish Film Institute.
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He worked for the Soviet wartime intelligence in occupied Europe, then spent 10 years in a Stalinist prison. Before that, when captured by the Gestapo, he had pretended to collaborate and had to explain himself for it for the rest of his life. Employing archival footage in a creative way, the film reveals the remarkable biography of a Polish Jew, a victim of the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968 in Poland, who was subject to surveillance and house arrest. Who actually was Leopold Trepper? He is portrayed as a man who, for many years, fought for his ideals, good name and the right to freedom.
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- Tomasz Wolski
Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. He was born in 1977. He is a graduate of Journalism at the Jagiellonian University and of a documentary course from the Wajda School. He has taken part in the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Berlin Today Award. He has made several documentaries, which include The Clinic (2006), "The Lucky Ones" (2009), "Doctors" (2011), "The Palace" (2012), "Not for Everyone" (2012), "Festival" (2017) and "An Ordinary Country" (2020, the winner of the Golden Hobby Horse at the 60KFF). As a editor he has worked with Sergei Loznitsa on his documentaries "Babi Yar. Context" and "The Kiev Trial". He is a co-director (with Piotr Pawlus) of "In Ukraine" which premiered at Berlinale in 2023. A member of the Polish Filmmakers Association, Polish and European Film Academies, and since 2024, a member of the Council of the Polish Film Institute.
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