Documentary Films - Competition 2005 / Bieda - zemia / Poland 2004
Scenes of coalseams and snow-capped heaps eloquently illustrate the succinct communication conveyed in the closing message of the film. Around 5,000 unemployed labourers are illegally mining coal in the closed-down mines near Walbrzych. Some of them even die there.
The dusky light floods the tired faces of men working in the deep coalseams. Pick-axes flicker, coal pours from shovels into tin buckets. More men take them out and transfer the coal to sacks. The men warm up food by a small fire. The flickering flames drive away the darkness and reveal the bitter creases on their scowling faces.... The closing title states that around 5,000 unemployed labourers are illegally mining coal in the closed-down mines near Walbrzych. Some of them die there.
5 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Filip Marczewski
/ Screenplay Filip Marczewski
/ Dir. of Photography Szymon Lenkowski
/ Music Dave Mevson
/ Editor Boguslawa Furga, Rafal Listopad
/ Producer Andrzej Bednarek
/ Production Polish National Filmschool Lodz
/ Contact Polish National Filmschool Lodz
Filip Marczewski is a student of the Lodz Film School (PWSFTViT). Last year the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia screened his student film Cyrano (2004), about actors from a provincial theatre, which maintains that no one has the right to rid people of their illusions.
Polish National Filmschool Lodz
Targowa 61/63, 90-323, Lodz
Poland
Phone: +48 426 345 820
Fax: +48 426 345 928
E-mail: [email protected]
Filip Marczewski
Film Director
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