Po-lin. Traces of memory

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Movie
German title Po-lin. Traces of memory
Original title Po-lin. Okruchy pamięci
Country of production Poland , Germany
original language Polish , German
Publishing year 2008
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK info
Rod
Director Jolanta Dylewska
production Klaus Schmutzler, Miroslaw Bork
music Michał Lorenc
camera Józef Romasz, Jolanta Dylewska

Po-lin. Traces of Memory is a Polish-German documentary made in 2008. He combines images from Jewish shtetls in Poland in the 1930s with memories from contemporary witnesses.

title

Po-lin comes from Hebrew and means the place where we stay . This is how Jews who had fled pogroms and the plague called Poland because they were welcomed comparatively friendly there.

content

The film recordings used were made by Jews who had emigrated from Poland to the USA and who were visiting their old homeland. Everyday scenes from Jewish life such as markets, celebrations and street scenes are shown. These film recordings were made between 1929 and 1937. They are underlaid with contemporary texts, which are spoken in the German version by Hanna Schygulla and in the Polish version by Piotr Fronczewski . In between, interviews with contemporary witnesses who experienced the coexistence of Jews and Poles as children are shown.

advancement

The film was funded by the Polish Film Art Institute, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media .

performance

The film premiered on October 9, 2008. It ran successfully in Polish cinemas. The film has not yet been distributed in Germany, nor has it been broadcast on television. The film was released on DVD by absolut Medien .

criticism

"The documentary" Po-lin: Traces of Memory "creates the impossible: The film brings the world of the Polish shtetl to life for a brief moment."

- Deutschlandfunk Kultur

"This film is unusual because it relies less on history books and statistics, and more on the type of memory that is passed on in families - the memory from the concrete point of view, from the" micro perspective ", as one would say academically."

- Berliner Zeitung

Prices

  • 3rd Prize of the Two Banks Festival, Kazimierz Dolny 2008
  • Audience Award at the Polish Film Festival in Chicago , 2008
  • Golden Film Ribbon of the Association of Polish Filmmakers, 2009
  • Main Prize of the Warsaw International Film Festival “Jewish Motifs”, 2009
  • Krzysztof Kieślowski Prize of the Polish Film Festival New York, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Bei der Kellen: Original recordings from the Schtetln , deutschlandfunkkultur.de from January 15, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Jan Brachmann: The documentary "Po-lin" shows amateur films from the everyday life of Jews and Poles , Berliner Zeitung from October 26, 2015, accessed on January 26, 2018.

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