Movie Poland versus History
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FilmPoland versus History
France, Poland2025documentary70'The pogrom in Jedwabne in 1941 was a white spot in post-war Polish history for a long time. It was not until Jan Tomasz Gross’s book ‘Neighbours’, published 60 years later, that the public debate on Polish-Jewish relations during the occupation was launched. The film shows how this subject divided contemporary Poles and was appropriated by historical politics. We are revisiting the facts that many have tried to deny and watching the laborious and painful process of the Polish society coming to terms with its own history, which was sometimes far from heroic and where not everyone was a victim.
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- Joanna Grudzinska
Joanna Grudzinska was born in Poland and lives in Paris. She writes and directs documentary and fiction films presented in numerous international festivals and broadcast on television. His favorite themes are education, coming of age, and political history. She has made two films on the fate of Poland's Jews, a portrait of the poet Zuzanna Ginczanka and her latest film on the distorted memory in Poland regarding the Jews and their fate during the war. She is currently working on several documentary and fiction projects and teaches writing and directing at university.
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The pogrom in Jedwabne in 1941 was a white spot in post-war Polish history for a long time. It was not until Jan Tomasz Gross’s book ‘Neighbours’, published 60 years later, that the public debate on Polish-Jewish relations during the occupation was launched. The film shows how this subject divided contemporary Poles and was appropriated by historical politics. We are revisiting the facts that many have tried to deny and watching the laborious and painful process of the Polish society coming to terms with its own history, which was sometimes far from heroic and where not everyone was a victim.
- directed by
- Joanna Grudzinska
Joanna Grudzinska was born in Poland and lives in Paris. She writes and directs documentary and fiction films presented in numerous international festivals and broadcast on television. His favorite themes are education, coming of age, and political history. She has made two films on the fate of Poland's Jews, a portrait of the poet Zuzanna Ginczanka and her latest film on the distorted memory in Poland regarding the Jews and their fate during the war. She is currently working on several documentary and fiction projects and teaches writing and directing at university.
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