A short day at work

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Movie
German title A short day at work
Original title Krótki dzień pracy
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 1981
length 73 minutes
Rod
Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
script Hanna Krall
Krzysztof Kieślowski
music Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz
camera Krzysztof Pakulski
cut Elżbieta Kurkowska
occupation

A Short Working Day is a Polish feature film by Krzysztof Kieślowski from 1981 .

action

As a feature documentary film, the film tells the story of the workers' unrest in 1976 in the Polish city of Radom . At the center of the plot is the First Secretary of the Voivodship Management of the PVAP, who was responsible for the behavior of the party in Radom in 1976 and in 1981 is to give an account of his behavior at that time before a tribunal of the Free Trade Union Solidarność . In flashbacks, the film tells the story of that time, which culminates in a storm of workers on the building of the PVAP voivodeship. The First Secretary had holed himself up here and was determined to go down like a captain with the sinking ship.

background

The film was banned by the censors after completion. After the fall of the Wall, Kieślowski saw no point in showing the film, and so it was not shown for the first time on Polish television until 1996 after Kieślowski's death. The film was then invited to various film festivals and shown as a tribute to Kieślowski (including at the Berlinale ). For these reasons, the film is one of the little-known works of the Polish master director, but it is a concise example of the connection between Kieślowski's documentary film style and fiction. As a politically very committed work, however, it stands in contrast to the psychologically profound later films by Kieślowski.

A special feature that should be mentioned is that the later Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki makes a short appearance in this film . Mazowiecki portrays himself in this film.

Reviews

  • Filmdienst: Kieslowski is committed to polemic against a typical representative of the power system of the time, who tried to navigate his way through the explosive situation of upheaval.

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