do not tell anyone

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Movie
German title Don't tell anyone
Original title Tylko never mów nikomu
Tylko nie mów nikomu (title of the Polish documentary film) .png
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 2019
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Tomasz Sekielski
script Tomasz Sekielski
production Marek Sekielski
camera Adam Galica ,
Wojciech Jakubczak ,
Piotr Suzin
cut Tomasz Sekielski
The director Tomasz Sekielski, 2019

Don't tell anyone (Polish title: Tylko nie mów nikomu ) is a Polish documentary about child abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland from 2019 . The production, directed by Tomasz Sekielski , was released on May 11, 2019.

content

The film documents numerous cases of sexual violence by Catholic priests against minors in Poland. Some of the material shown was filmed with a hidden camera, but the alleged perpetrators concerned were made unrecognizable. The film presents allegations of pedophilic sexual violence committed by members of the Polish clergy, some known for decades and some new. For the first time he publishes accusations against the confessor of Lech Wałęsa and against the priest who initiated the construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń .

production

The 121-minute film was produced as an independent production by Tomasz and Marek Sekielski entirely on the basis of an internet-based fundraising campaign. The first of the brothers wrote the script and worked as a director, the second as a producer. Adam Galica, Wojciech Jakubczak and Piotr Susin were responsible for the videography, and Dariusz Mandes was the editor.

reception

After the film was released on Youtube on May 11, 2019 , over a million viewers saw it in the first 5.5 hours. This represents a new record for Polish documentaries on YouTube. Within the first week, the film received over 20 million views. The response increased the shock of the movie Clergy About the Sins of the Church, which had five million viewers last winter.

Due to the high reception of the documentary, the authors started talks with Netflix to negotiate international distribution. A sequel to the film has also been announced.

Reactions

While representatives of the Catholic Church react cautiously, politicians from the ruling party PiS see the film as an attack on the Church and Poland. The Polish Catholic Bishops' Conference welcomed the film and apologized for the child abuse. Two of the priests shown in the film gave up their duties or were released from them.

The director of the Statistical Institute of the Catholic Church disclosed some data for the years 1999 to 2018. According to this, 382 cases are known, including 198 sexual assaults on young people under the age of 15. The offenses were committed by 74 religious and 41 diocesan priests. About 95 percent of the cases would have been canonically examined, whereas 5.2 percent (20 cases) were not examined at all. 40 percent of the accused priests received a penalty under canon law, with around a quarter losing their priesthood. In 13 percent of the abuse cases there was no final judgment. About 28 of the accused priests were officially acquitted.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film about child abuse shakes Poland , in: mdr from May 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ Christoph von Marschall: A YouTube film becomes a problem for Poland's government , in: Tagesspiegel from May 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Florian Kellermann: A documentary film shakes Poland , on Deutschlandfunk on May 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ Polish film about abuse published on Youtube , in: Kirche + Leben-Netz from May 13, 2019.
  5. ↑ Documentary on child abuse shows effect on mdr from May 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ Theo Mechtenberg: Analysis: Poland's Catholic Church in Crisis , in: Federal Agency for Civic Education of June 18, 2019.