SEVEN JEWS FROM MY CLASS + WITNESSES
dir. Marcel Łoziński, Poland, 1986-1991, 70 min
The screening is presented as part of the special WJFF project"Decades. 1945-2013."
SEVEN JEWS FROM MY CLASS, dir. Marcel Łoziński, Poland, 1991, 40 min
"Seven Jews from My Class" is one of the first films to address the topic of the March '68 events in Poland. Marcel Łoziński interviews individuals who emigrated during the anti-Semitic purge, as they meet again at a class reunion. Some only realized they were Jewish during the course of the anti-Semitic campaign. The film explores the blurry category of subjective identity construction: A Jew? A Pole? A Jewish Pole? Or perhaps a Polish Jew, or a Pole of Jewish origin? We are dealing here with a group of people suddenly uprooted and cast out from a reality they were part of just a moment ago. Their biographies and their paths of emigration vary, but at one point, they meet again in Poland for a class reunion after many years.
WITNESSES, dir. Marcel Łoziński, Poland, 1986, 27 min
"Witnesses" is a moving and powerful film by Marcel Łoziński, where the director gathers the testimonies of people who remember the Kielce Pogrom. This tragic event took place in the tenement house at 7/9 Planty Street. Among the witnesses interviewed are a teacher, a nurse, an artist, an engineer, a factory worker, a photographer, a philologist, and a priest. The attitudes of the individuals recounting the murder of Jews -which occurred barely a year after the end of World War II and the Holocaust - are complex and varied.
05-11-2025 19:00, Muzeum POLIN
Language: polish Subtitles: brak
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