Abstract
Mikołaj Jazdon in his article presents an analysis and interpretation of a documentary that became a “trademark” of the young generation’s cinema from the decade of the Cinema of Moral Anxiety in Poland. Zygadło filmed the social behaviour of students in a Warsaw primary school to depict the fatal influence of the communist system on Polish youth, who were encouraged to tattle on each other. The method of portraying a social group from one place, as in Zygadłos Primary School, became popular among other documentary filmmakers from his generation. They began to shoot films about institutions like factories, schools or hospitals, focusing on the social relations between the people working there. These films were intentionally made as metaphors of Poland in the 1970s and of the rules operating in a country ruled by the Communist Party. The auteur strategy of depicting reality in a “pars pro toto” manner allowed documentary filmmakers to outwit the Party censors.References
A. Michalak, Przełom w polskim dokumencie– program artystyczny „szkoły krakowskiej” w kontekście przemian kulturowych i politycznych lat 1968–1971, w: Kino polskie: reinterpretacje. Historia – ideologia – polityka, pod red. K. Klejsy i E. Nurczyńskiej-Fidelskiej, Rabid, Krakow 2008, s. 435–446.
Chełmska 21. 50 lat Wytwórni Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych w Warszawie, pod red. B. Janickiej i A. Kołodyńskiego, Wytwornia Filmow Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Warszawa 2000, s. 133.
M. Przylipiak, Polski film dokumentalny po roku 1989, „Kwartalnik Filmowy” 1995, nr 23, s. 64.
Trzeba odnaleźć ten delikatny ton, z M. Łozińskim rozmawia T. Sobolewski, „Kino” 1992, nr 8, s. 6.
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