20.10.FACTORY (Fabryka) (105 min)
A Working day in the Ursus tractor factory. Shots of workers alternate with those of management board meeting.
The factory cannot meet its production quota because there is a shortage of parts. Papers are sent out, licenses are applied for, numerous
meetings held, but there seems to be no way out of the vicious network of misunderstanding and bureaucracy - the left hand doesn't
know what the right is doing. As one of the board members says: "the bureaucracy in this country hampers any solution".
Yet the workers still have to meet their quota.
Production company WFD, 1970.
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22.10. BRICKLAYER (Murarz)
(15 min)
Documentary about a bricklayer who, during the Stalin era, was encouraged by the Party to become an exemplary
worker and further the Communist cause. A young activist, he was promoted, he says, "I became a jack-in-the office, instead of an
activist...I got a desk job and gasped for breath, I had to let in fresh air through the window..And then came year 1956 and everything
tumbled down of a sudden. It was a little painful" - The camera follows the bricklayer - a man whose life has been used up by
ideological powers above him - during the May Day parade, alternating with scenes from his daily life.
Production company WFD, 1973.
23.10.
CURRICULUM VITAE (Zyciorys) (26 min)
A Party Committee cross-examines a Party member threatened with expulsion from the Party. The life-story of the
accused is a fictional one - although the man playng the role had experienced something similar in his own life - while the Control
Committee is real. As the meeting progresses, the Control Committee begins to believe in the autheticity of the case and gives the
accused its professional inquisitorial treatment.
Production company WFD, 1975
24.10. HOSPITAL (Szpital) (20 min)
The camera follows orthopaedic surgeons on a 32-hour shift. Intruments fall apart in their hands, the electrical
current keeps breaking, there are shortage of the most basic materials, but the doctors persevere hour after hour, and with humour.
Production company WFD, 1976.
26.10.
FROM A NIGHT PORTER'S POINT OF VIEW (Zpunktu widzenia nocnego portiera) (17 min)
Portrait of a factory porter, a fanatic of strict discipline, who extends his power even into his personal life as he
tries to control everybody and everything in belief 'that rules are more important than people...That means that when a man doesn't
obey the rules,' he says,'you could say he's a goner...Children also have to conform to the rules and adults who live on this earth,
for whom this beautiful world has been created. I reckon you've got to have capital punishment...Simply hang him (culprit). Tens, hundreds
of people would see you.'
Production company WFD, 1977.
26.10.
STATIONS (Dworzec) (13 min)
Warasaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe
they won't. The film about people like that, people looking for something.' (Krzysztof Kielowski) Overhead video cameras watch over the station.
Production company WFD, 1980.
22.10.TAKING HEADS (Gadajace glowy) (15 min)
Seventy-nine Poles, aged seven to 100, answer three questions: When were you born? What are you?
What would you be most?
Production company WFD, 1980.
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