Films by Kontakt

	KONTAKT has produced more than 250 documentaries, including the following:
	"Kultura" (Culture) (60 min.) 1985, directed by Agnieszka Holland and Andrzej Wolski - the history of the Instytut Literacki in Maisons-Laffitte, with Jerzy Giedroyc, Jozef Czapski, Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Zofia Hertz, Konstanty Jelenski, Czeslaw Milosz et al.
	"Czapski" (75 min.) 1985, directed by Agnieszka Holland and Andrzej Wolski - a film portrait of Jozef Czapski with Konstanty Jelenski and Wojciech Karpinski.
	"Kalendarz wojny" (War Calendar) (53 min.) 1986, directed by Tomasz Labedz - 1981-1984, a record of the events of the Martial Law period.
	"Piwnica pod baranami" (The Piwnica pod Baranami Cabaret) (115 min.) 1986, directed by Laco Adamik - an in-depth retrospective of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret performance at the Beabouburg Centre Pompidou in Paris
	"Gdzie indziej" (Somewhere Else) (55 min.) 1996, directed by Jarek Sypniewski - Polish creative talent in Paris, including Slawomir Mrozek, Agnieszka Holland, Wojciech Pszoniak, Stanislaw Syrewicz, Kazimierz Brandys and Jan Lebenstein.
	"Emisariusze" (Emissaries) (60 min.), 1987, directed by Andrzej Wolski - three couriers talk about their wartime missions in London, Washington and Poland: Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, Jerzy Lerski and Jan Karski.
	"Jestem Zydem, bo tak mi sie podoba" (I'm a Jew because I want to be) (52 min.) 1987, directed by Jarek Sypniewski - a collective portrait of Polish Jews living in Israel.
	"Trzy portrety" (Three portraits) (60 min.) 1987, directed by Janusz Kijowski - Jozef Kusmierek, Marek Edelman and Tadeusz Konwicki talk about their lives.
	"General Sikorski - tajemnica smierci" (The mysterious death of General Sikorski) (60 min.)1987, directed by Witold Zadrowski - an attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of the general.
	"General Anders i jego armia" (Anders and his army) (55 min.) 1987, directed by Witold Zadrowski - a history of this army richly illustrated with excellent archival material.
	"General Maczek i jego pancerni" (Maczek's Armoured Division) (55 min.) 1988, directed by Witold Zadrowski - on the trail of the battles fought by the First Armoured Division.
	"KOR" (53 min.) 1988, directed by Agnieszka Holland and Andrzej Wolski - the story of the Committee for the Defence of the Workers as told by its members.
	"Pilsudski" (60 min.) 1988, directed by Witold Zadrowski - a portrait of the Polish leader.
	"Koncert Jacka Kaczmarskiego" (Jacek Kaczmarski in concert) (60 min.) 1988, directed by Tomasz Labedz.
	"Szpot" (45 min.) 1988, directed by Witold Zadrowski - a film portrait of Janusz Szpotanski.

	"Spotkanie w pracowni" (Rendez-vous in the atelier) (26 min.) 1991, directed by Piotr Weychert - Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski and Jan Lebenstein.
	"Otto von Habsburg - pewna idea Europy" (Otto von Hapsburg and his vision of Europe) (52 min.) 1991, directed by Piotr Weychert - the story of the son of the last Kaiser of Austria, one of the precursors of the European Union.
	"Redaktorzy podziemia" (Editors of the underground) (30 min) 1992, directed by Jolanta Kessler - the history of the irregularly published underground literary quarterly Puls, published between 1977 and 1981.
	"Droga dzwieku" (The path of sound) (40 min) 1993, directed by Piotr Weychert - Jacek Ostaszewski, one of the most original figures in contemporary music.
	"Parasol" (26 min.) 1993, directed by Krzysztof Tchorzewski - the history of the 'Parasol' battalion (1943-44), a unit of the National Army.
	"Opowiesc o Wolnej Europie" (The tale about Radio Free Europe) (2 parts, each 52 min.) 1994 directed by Jolanta Kessler - the history of Radio Wolna Europa.
	"Krwia i rymem" (By blood and verse) (26 min) 1994, directed by Andrzej Milosz - a film about Zbigniew Jasinski, the poet of the Warsaw Uprising.
	"Lebenstein" (26 min.) 1994, directed by Joanna Zamojdo and Piotr Weychert - a film portrait of this eminent Paris-based Polish painter.
	"Szopka w Buzuluku" (The muppet show in Buzuluk) (30 min) 1994, directed by Jolanta Kessler - the nativity scene put on display in 1942 in the camp of General Anders' nascent army provides the starting-point and backdrop for the story of its creator, Tadeusz Wittlin.
	"Msza z ksiedzem Jerzym" (Mass with Father Jerzy) (45 min.) 1995, directed by Jolanta Kessler - a unique documentary based on material filmed in the Church of St. Stanislaw Kostka in the years 1982-84.
	"Solidarni" (United in Solidarity) (52 min.) 1995, directed by Jolanta Kessler - a documentary about the first 15 years of the Solidarity Trade Union movement.
	"Oredzie" (Reconciliation) (52 min.) 1995, directed by Marek Drazewski - the authors and background of the 1965 Letter of Reconciliation sent by the Polish bishops to the German bishops.
	"Album Szczecinski - 1970" (Pictures of Szczecin - 1970) (30 min.) 1995, directed by Aleksander Strokowski - rediscovered photographic material and witnesses to the 1970 demonstrations in the Szczecin shipyards.
	"Ksiaze Niezlomny" (Prince Braveheart) (2 episodes, each 52 min.) 1995, directed by Jerzy Diatlowicki - a profile of the editor Jerzy Giedroyc.
	"Pogrom" (52 min.) 1996, directed by Andrzej Milosz - 1 July1946 in Kielce.
	"Henio" (23 min.) 1996, directed by Andrzej Milosz and Piotr Weychert - the story of Henryk Blaszczyk, the boy whose disappearance sparked the Kielce Pogrom.
	"Juz nie moge przestac byc dama" (I have to be a lady) (52 min.), 1996, directed by Jolanta Kessler - the life and artistic career of Nina Andrycz.
	"Jest w Zywcu Krzyz" (A cross stands in Zywiec) (26 min.) 1997, directed by Ludmila Niedbalska - the history of the cross in the town of Zywiec.
	"Polska w imperium GRU i KGB" (Poland within the empire of the Russian Intelligence and the KGB) (52 min.) 1997, directed by Jolanta Kessler.
	"Konsul Sugihara I wizy zycia" (Consul Sugihara and visa for life) (52 min.) 1997, directed by Andrzej Milosz and Piotr Weychert - the co-operation between the Polish intelligence service and the Japanese consul in Kaunas in 1939 and 1940.
	"Od Grudnia do Grudnia" (December to December) (52 min.) 1997, directed by Ryszard Bugajski - the threat of Soviet intervention in 1980 and 1981; interviews with Zbigniew Brzezinski,Zbigniew Bujak, Stanislaw Ciosek, Anatoli Gribkow, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Stanislaw Kania, Ryszard Kuklinski, Mieczyslaw Rakowski and others.
	"Sprawa pulkownika Kuklinskiego" (The Colonel Kuklinski files) (52 min.) 1997, directed by Jolanta Kessler - Colonel Kuklinski talks about his life. "Partum de Facto" (26 min.) 1997, directed by Piotr Weychert - a profile of Andrzej Partum, poet and visual artist living in Denmark.
	"Ukladanie zycia" (Living) (50 min.) 1998, directed by Antoni Krauze - a film about Wiktor Woroszylski.
	"Pociag do Wiednia" (The Train to Vienna) (26 min.) 1998, directed by Marek Drazewski - March 1968 seen through the eyes of those who left Poland and those who stayed.
	"Biblioteka Polska w Paryzu" (The Polish Library in Paris) (23 min.) 1998, directed by Jolanta Kessler.
	"Nie ma powodów do radosci" (No cause for joy) (26 min.) 1998, directed by Jerzy Diatlowicki - the protest by young Poles against the intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
	"Trudne Braterstwo" (A difficult brotherhood) (52 min.) 1999, directed by Jerzy Lubach - Polish-Ukrainian relations; Jozef Pilsudski and Semen Petlura in the years 1919-1921.
	"Poszukiwany Ryszard Kapuscinski" (In search of Kapuscinski) (52 min.) 1999, directed by Filip Bajon - a film portrait of Ryszard Kapuscinski.
	"Harcerska sprawa" (A Scouting cause) (45 min.) 1999, directed by Krzysztof Woloczko - a film about the conspiratorial Scout pack from Bialystok, whose members, teenage girls and boys, were given prison sentences of up to ten years in 1947.
	"Dowody na istnienie Hanny K." (Proof of the existence of Hanna K.) (52 min.) 1999, directed by Andrzej Titkow - a film portrait of the eminent Polish writer Hanna Krall.
	"Rakowiecka" (Rakowiecka Street) (52 min.) 1999, directed by Jolanta Kessler - the history of the prison on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw.
	"Tamtego 1989 roku" (That year 1989) (3 episodes, each 26 min.) 1999, directed by Jolanta Kessler - the year of the transformations in Poland and other parts of Central and Eastern Europe. With Zbigniew Bujak, Stanislaw Ciosek, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Czeslaw Kiszczak, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Jacek Kuron, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Leszek Moczulski, Andrzej Stelmachowski, Jerzy Urban and others. Includes previously unpublished archival film materials.
	"Wyzwoleni" (Liberated) (43 min.) 2000, directed by Antoni Krauze - the fate of soldiers of the National Army in the prison cells of the Polish People's Republic.
	"Caziel" (27 min.) 2000, directed by Tomasz Pobog-Malinowski - a profile of the Polish painter Kazimierz Zielenkiewicz, who lived in England and, for years unknown in Poland, was to become the best known Polish painter in the world.
	"Postulaty sierpniowe" (The August Demands) (7 episodes, each approx. 7 min.) 2000, directed by Piotr Morawski - Solidarity's '21 points' of August 1980 seen from today's perspective.
	"Jak zerwalismy zelazna kurtyne" (How we brought down the iron curtain) (58 min.) 2000, directed by Krystyna Mokrosinska - the transitions in Poland in 1989 contrasted with events in the rest of the world. A film based around unique archival materials.
	"Ksiaze" (The Prince) (10 min.) 2000, directed by Marek Drazewski - the editor Jerzy Giedroyc reflects on himself and on life. The last interview given by the editor.
	"Cien" (Shadow) (26 min.) 2000, directed by Jacek Petrycki - colleagues and friends of the editor Jerzy Giedroyc reminisce on his life.
	"Kronika przerwanego Kongresu" (Chronicle of the interrupted Congress) (28 min.) 2000, directed by Ewa Bielska - a chronicle of the Congress of Polish Culture that was interrupted by the imposition of Martial Law in 1981. The film is based around archival material never previously broadcast.
	"Byl Kongres..." (That Congress) (26 min.) 2000, directed by Ewa Bielska - the 2000 Congress of Polish Culture.
	"Na podobienstwo Jacka" (In Jacek's own image) (58 min.) 2000, directed by Andrzej Titkow - a film portrait of Jacek Kuron.
	"Za wolnosc Wasza and nasza" (For your freedom and ours) (52 min.) 2001, directed by Pawel Woldan - Polish soldiers of Jewish descent in the Second World War.
	"Kolumbowie w kolorze feldgrau" (Colombus in field uniform) (52 min.) 2001, directed by Pawel Woldan - Poles in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War.
	"Dlatego zrobiłem film " (Why I made film) (45 min.), 2001 dir. Antoni Krauze - Bohdan Kosiński, one of the most prominent Polish documentary film-directors, talks about his life and his films
	" Marzec 68 – milicyjny zapis " (March 68 – a militia’s report) (23 min.), 2001 dir. Piotr Morawski - The film presents the students’ demonstrations of 8 March 1968 as recorded by the communist militia’s cameras.
	"Trudne pojednania" (A Difficult Reconciliation) (45 min.), 2002 dir. Andrzej Falber The March of the Living at the site of the former Nazi camp of Auschwitz; relations between young Poles and Jews
	" Belweder " (Belvedere) (30 min.), 2001 dir. Ewa Bielska - Commissioned by the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland, the film traces the history of the Belvedere Palace in Warsaw.
	" Autograf " (Autograph) (13 instalments, 40 min. each), 2001/2002 www.autograf.ant.pl - A series of TV programmes focusing on culture and the arts, presented by Jacek Żakowski and panellists Stefan Chwin, Jerzy Stuhr, Andrzej Osęka, Stanisław Radwan and Krzysztof Knittel. Guests include such prominent representatives of Polish literature, film, music, theatre and the visual arts as: Leszek Kołakowski, Czesław Miłosz, Urszula Dudziak, Tomasz Stańko, Jacek Ostaszewski, Sławomir Idziak, Andrzej Czeczot, Janusz Głowacki, Olga Tokarczuk, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jacek Kaspszyk, Janusz Stokłosa, Piotr Trzaskalski, Dorota Nieznalska, Krystian Lupa, and Mariusz Treliński.
	"Tajne tasmy SB" (Secret films of the Security Service) (35 min.), 2002 dir. Piotr Morawski - The film uses operational footage of the now-defunct communist Security Service (SB) which has been discovered in its archives, most probably saved from destruction by sheer coincidence. The film material is commented on by former SB staff: an operations officer, a cameraman and an editor. The film won the Grand Prix at the 4th International Days of Documentary Film ‘The Crossroads of Europe’ in Lublin (2003).
	"Wisla" (Vistula) (5 instalments, 27 min. each.), 2002 dir. Rafał Mierzejewski - Commissioned by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, the film presents the history of Poland’s main river from the ice age to the present.
	"12 lat pózniej" (Twelve Years Later) (52 min.), 2002 dir. Marek Drążewski Foreigners from Western Europe who chose Poland as a place to live and work share their views on Polish transformations
	"Pomysł na życie" (An Idea for Life) (10 instalments, 26 min. each), 2003 dir. Sławomir Koehler and Maria Dłużewska - A series of documentaries presenting small towns and localities in Poland which carrry out interesting ecological projects.
	"Powtórka z życia" (Life Replayed) (15 instalments, 13 min. each.), 2002-2005 dir. Rafał Mierzejewski, Ewa Pytka - A series of programmes focusing on Poland’s modern history, each referring to a single event, anniversary or holiday. The series includes ’First and Third of May’, ’31 August 1980’, ‘13 December 1981’, ‘8 March 1968’, ‘1 September 1939’, ‘17 September 1939’, ‘Our Friend Stalin’, ‘Sport and Propaganda’, ‘The New Year’ More instalments in production.
	"Ponad Granicami" (Beyond Frontiers) (16 instalments, 26 min. each.), 2004 - A series of interviews conducted by Andrzej Jonas, editor of The Warsaw Voice, with the ambassadors of Sweden, Austria, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Belgium, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Greece, the Delegation of the European Commission and Switzerland. The interviews cover various aspects of the countries’ membership in the European Union or cooperation with the bloc.
	"Wilno Miłosza" (The Vilnius of Miłosz) (26 min.) 2002 dir. Andrzej Miłosz - A sentimental journey of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, Czesław Miłosz to the places of his childhood.
	"Z Gdańska do Europy" (From Gdańsk to Europe) (26 min.), 2004 dir. A. Marek Drążewski - A film about the history of the establishment and expansion of the European Union, with an emphasis on the recent admission of 10 Central and Eastern European states (produced for the European Parliament).
	"Jego życie to taniec" (He Danced Life) (55 min.), 2004 dir. Marian Czura - A co-production with Germany’s MTM West Television & Film GmbH, the film profiles the dancer, Sylvin Rubinstein, who in the 1950s, under the stage name Imperio, became a flamenco star. Dolores, his twin sister, perished during the Holocaust. Before the war, the twin duo from Polish Galicia – ‘Imperio and Dolores’ – danced the flamenco in Europe’s best-known variety theatres.
	"Świat według generała" (The World According to the General) (55 min.), 2004 dir. Tomasz Pobóg-Malinowski - The film presents Poland’s modern history through the eyes of Wojciech J. Based on a long interview with the general, conducted in 1990, during the last days of his presidency, it also includes rich archival footage.
	"Pseudonim: Jan Nowak" (Alias: Jan Nowak) (52 min.), 2004 dir. Jolanta Kessler- Chojecka - The film about the late Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, the legendary World War Two ‘Courier from Warsaw’, the director of Radio Free Europe and the ambassador for the Polish cause in Washington.
	"Summa zdarzeń" (The Week’s Events) (30 min.), 2004 – 2005 www.tvp.pl/summazdarzeń - A weekly TV programme in which Jacek Żakowski comments on the previous week’s major events and talks to prominent politicians and analysts.
	"Eldorado" (50 min.), 2005 dir. Rafał Mierzejewski - An account of an expedition in the footsteps of the legend about the lost treasure of the Incas, led by the well-known explorer Jacek Pałkiewicz.
	" Miriam " (50 min.), 2005 dir. Piotr Weychert - A film portrait of Miriam Akavi, the author of such books as The End of Childhood, My Own Vineyard and Galia and Miklosz. Having miraculously survived the Holocaust in Kraków’s Płaszów Ghetto, she was deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and, subsequently, to Bergen-Belsen. In 1946 she managed to reach Israel, with a stopover in Sweden. She became a registered nurse and studied literature and history at the University of Tel Aviv. She worked in the Jewish Agency and served as Israel’s cultural attaché in Budapest and Stockholm. She took up writing in 1975, describing her childhood, the Holocaust and her war experiences.
	"Przestrzenie Fangora" (Fangor’s Spaces) (50 min.), 2005 dir. Piotr Weychert - A film portrait of Wojciech Fangor. Born in 1923, for several decades a US resident, Fangor is one of the most outstanding contemporary Polish painters. He talks about his life and work, as well as the most important trends in 20th-century art.
	"Ciekawe eksperymenty" (Fascinating Experiments) (86 min.), 2005 dir. Rafał Mierzejewski - Commissioned by the WSiP School Publishers, the film is a supplement to the physics school manual. It shows numerous experiments in the field of mechanics, acoustics, thermodynamics and optics
	Other KONTAKT productions include:
	A cycle of 15 films under the common title "Historie o Historii" (History's stories) (20 min.), 1992-94 directed by Jarek Sypniewski - Historical parallels narrated at the site of their occurrence by the well-known essayist and historian Ludwik Stomma.
	A series of twelve films about people from the Solidarity movement (25 min.), 1992-95 - Who at the beginning of the 1990s considered their mission achieved and did not continue in politics. Made by Poland's leading filmmakers.
	Over 20 episodes of the television series "Rzeczpospolita Druga i Pół" (The Second-and-a-half Republic) ( 50 min.) 1993-1995
	A cycle of 25 films entitled "Impresje lat 80-tych" (Impressions of the 1980s) (26 min.) 1994-97 directed by Ewa Bielska, Bogdan Saganowski and Marek Drazewski capturing the Poland of the 1980s.
	KONTAKT has also produced scores of short educational films suitable for use as starters for primary school lessons in the following subjects: mathematics, history, geography and Polish.

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